Comments on: A Safari User’s Switch to Chrome

By: eriza

eriza — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:23:17 +0000

has anyone noticed Safari’s memory usage? It takes more than 300MB without any page opened… it’s kind of too much, isn’t it?

By: Dogus

Dogus — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:29:17 +0000

There is no 64-Bit chrome for mac yet. So there is no 64-bit flash player square plugin for chrome on mac. So we have to wait a little bit until Google announces the 64Bit version of Chrome for mac:)

By: SantaKlauseLiqeuor

SantaKlauseLiqeuor — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:29:10 +0000

Chrome is definitely far superior. It loads flash faster when apple was blame adobe for slow load times *headsmack*

By: David

David — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:44:04 +0000

Chrome sucks on Mac because Steve Jobs is the new devil. I will likely not buy another Apple product….and just a few months ago I was buying new macs for everyone.
He’s closed down all of his products. They no longer play friendly with a variety of other players…Google (Chrome), Adobe (Flash – ever tried to watch a video on Chrome on Mac?!), and others.

He had a raving fan, now I’m going to switch back to either a pc (ugh!), or Chrome netbook.

It is so sad. Someone needs to relieve him of his command. Steve….YOu’re Fired!

By: Sokobanja

Sokobanja — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:42:41 +0000

Recently Crome has a lot of incredible bugs. It seems to me that this was not the case in previous versions

By: KT

KT — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:42:07 +0000

Which site was loading slowly in Safari anyway, Alex? Did you ping them about whether they’re testing, even for 5 minutes, in Safari?

Interesting comments about your browser choice. I’m surprised you didn’t mention looking at Opera, given Opera v10.6x is testing faster than Chrome/Safari (and Opera v10.7x snapshots are scoring even faster), if performance is big for you.
http://www.tech18.com/opera-1070-faster-chrome-7.html

I’ve been using Opera for years, and it’s interesting to see lots of innovative features trickle down to others (much of them mentioned in the comments, integrated searching, full-text history, inline Find — all from address bar, tab dragging, blocking Flash, etc…).

Some I didn’t see, that Opera has: Rewind, fast-fwd, paste & go, inline search suggestions from Bing & Wikipedia from URL bar, mouse gestures, draggable Visual Tabs-on-the-side for bigger viewport, remote debugging with Dragonfly and more.

A feature I’ve liked for about 2 yrs in Opera called, “On-demand plugins” taken from Opera Turbo (in opera:config), Opera speeds up ~20% by blocking all the Flash ads, mostly. Basically, a “ClickForAnyPlugins.”

I do like Safari’s text box resizing. Very nice. So, I did snag an Opera user.js extension to do that.

So, if you never tried Opera for a week, lately…since it’s rewritten in Cocoa now, check it out, if you want.

Btw, what do you think about Google still blocking Opera users from using Instant? One line of browser-sniffing code by Google to make non-techie users think Opera is broken (who don’t know how to go into Opera’s site-prefs to change to ID=Firefox).

Not. Cool.

By: Gustavo Domínguez

Gustavo Domínguez — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:29:14 +0000

I tried other browsers different than Safari too, but never got to make the switch. Even in Windows I’m still using Safari even though it’s not -that- great.

I’m a MobileMe subscriber and I love to have my bookmarks synced across all my devices, MobileMe sync doesn’t work with Chrome or Firefox; only Safari and IE, which of course, I uninstalled from every Windows computer I own.

By: iBookmaster

iBookmaster — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:47:35 +0000

Thanks doog, I have that installed in Chrome. Chrome is looking good for sure. I will still be trying it out from time to time. Who knows, I might end up switching! Chrome does seem to not be such a memory hog as Safari over time.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:16:32 +0000

I’ve switched to Chrome for one reason only. When I launch Safari my hard disk starts working like crazy and performance is poor. I never experience this with Chrome. Frankly I prefer Safari’s design and features (especially the RSS reader), but the sluggish performance irritates me. Surely the native Apple browser should perform best on the Mac?

By: birdy

birdy — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:10:38 +0000

Switched to Chrome a while ago. But since Safari introduced Extensions I switched back to Safari.