For anyone wondering why anybody uses Safari these days, the simple answer (for me, at least) is that it consumes much less CPU and energy on my MacBook Pro than Chrome and Firefox. It can mean an hour or more of battery life when unplugged, and greatly reduced testicle-cooking when plugged. I still use Chrome for development but Safari is my "daily driver" for email, surfing, reading, etc.
Yeah plus the integration (on Apple devices only, but hey) is superb.
I quite often use the automatic feature on my iPhone "open what you are reading in safari on the Mac Pro on your phone".
Then I leave work, commute home reading that, and then my Mac at home senses what's open in my phone's Safari and it's one click to open it on the big screen.
Safari is actually a pretty great browser, too. Faster than any other for me, more stable, less battery drain on laptops.
I still use Chrome and Firefox all day long too, but mainly for specific development chores, or to stay logged into services with my work account, while Safari is logged into my personal account.
I am agreeing with this. The difference of using safari vs chrome can make the difference of a few hours more battery.
Here's an example: I just started chrome to read some articles here on HN and it already bypassed my email client in battery usage that was running for for a good bit longer.
Even worse is that a lot of apps nowadays decide to ship their own chromium in form of electron. Slack, Nylas, Atom - it's a battery disaster and makes these tools virtually unusable when I'm not plugged in.
good point on Electron! I also noticed that Slack and Atom are real battery hogs. Worse is Slack when a giphy is also in the chat window (although the window is in background)... it burns CPU for new reason.
Not just the default browser - the only browser on iOS.
Which leads to frustrating issues like webpages you can't read because someone checked in a bit of cide that stuffs up viewport scaling in at webpage that has style="overflow:hidden" in the body tag.
In other words, don't try to browse source code in OpenGrok.
So you get critical issues that don't get fixed for 3-6 months.
