Ask HN: What's wrong with Safari?

3 points by sdan 7y ago ↗ HN

I'm hoping to quit Chrome in the next couple of months and migrate to Firefox or Safari. Is there any reason not to move to Safari?

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jakear 7y ago ↗

I’ve found Safari to have masssive start time (time from open app to home screen shows up). This seems to be related to extensions. I only use a few extensions, but I found myself waiting for several seconds for my very simple, locally hosted, homepage to load. During this time I got the spinning mouse wheel in Safari. After disabling extensions it was better, but I’d rather not disable extensions.

jomazu 7y ago ↗

Best alternative options: 1) Brave: https://brave.com/ 2) Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/

Klonoar 7y ago ↗

I actually use Webkit Technology Preview, which you can find on the app store - it's pretty much Safari but with some extra goodies, and I find it comparable to Chrome in a lot of ways. Would recommend.

Safari = my personal browsing Firefox = a lot of work stuff

sdan 7y ago ↗

I've used Webkit Tech Preview before, but had some bugs a year or two ago. I'm trying it again after your suggestion.

cimmanom 7y ago ↗

If you don’t use browser extensions, it may be a good choice. Most power users I know avoid it because its customizability is poor.

It’s not a bad little browser. I often use it for sites that perform poorly in Firefox.