Chrome reviews for mac mac#
(Firefox came in at 3 percent, and everything else was under 1 percent.) 3Īs someone who’s been a Mac user long enough to remember when there were no good web browsers for the Mac, having both Safari and Chrome feels downright bountiful, and the competition is making both of them better. Looking at my web stats, over the last 30 days, 69 percent of Mac users visiting DF used Safari, but a sizable 28 percent used Chrome. I personally prefer Safari, but I can totally see why others - especially those who work on desktop machines or MacBooks that are usually plugged into power - prefer Chrome. Chrome is Google’s browser for all devices. Safari is Apple’s browser for Apple devices. In short, Safari closely reflects Apple’s institutional priorities (privacy, energy efficiency, the niceness of the native UI, support for MacOS and iCloud technologies) and Chrome closely reflects Google’s priorities (speed, convenience, a web-centric rather than native-app-centric concept of desktop computing, integration with Google web properties). Update: Unbeknownst to me, Chrome fully supports Handoff with iOS devices. Me, personally, I’d feel lost without the ability to send tabs between my Macs and iPhone via Handoff. For many people on MacOS, the decision between Safari and Chrome probably comes down to which ecosystem you’re more invested in - iCloud or Google - for things like tab, bookmark, and history syncing. It has good web developer tools, and Chrome adopts new web development technologies faster than Safari does.īut Safari’s extension model is more privacy-conscious. It almost inarguably has the widest and deepest extension ecosystem. It’s clearly the second-most-Mac-like browser for MacOS. If you use a Mac laptop, using Chrome instead of Safari can cost you an hour or more of battery life per day. And its energy performance puts Chrome to shame.
It may not be the fastest browser but it is fast. It remains the one and only browser for the Mac that behaves like a native Mac app through and through. Chrome for a while, and Petitt’s jab, even retracted, makes for a good excuse. 1īut I’ve been meaning to write about Safari vs. It’s easy when making an aside - and it’s clear that the central premise of this piece is about positioning Chrome as the Goliath to Firefox’s David, so references to Safari and IE are clearly asides - to conflate “ I don’t like X” with “ X is bad”. Those of the good folks at Firefox and Mozilla, then please accept Wasn’t obvious that those were my personal opinions as a user, not It’s true, I personally don’t like those products, they just don’t
Plain bad.” I’ve since deleted that sentence. In my original post I made a personal dig about Edge, IE and
Chrome reviews for mac update#
In an update posted today, he walked that back: Unfortunately, too many people think Firefox isn’t a modern Safari and Internet Explorer are just plain bad. īut talking to friends, it sounds more and more like living onĬhrome has started to feel like their only option. Things that bug me about the Chrome product, for sure, but I‘m OK Like most of us who spend too much time inįront of a laptop, I have two browsers open Firefox for work,Ĭhrome for play, customized settings for each.
I head up Firefox marketing, but I use Chrome every day. Eric Petitt, writing for The Official Unofficial Firefox Blog yesterday:
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