Chrome or Safari?

chas_m said:

. It's great that we have so many good browsers to pick from!

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Well put!

I use chrome on my PC's, and was sad when i got my mbp because they didnt' have it for mac. Now they do, and i'm happy. Some webpages don't work on chrome, so i use FF for them, but mainly stick to chrome.

I use Chrome and really like it. It's fast, nice bookmark options, clean appearance. But, I also have to have Firefox to log into my bank account, as Chrome isn't supported on that site, yet.

I used Chrome for a while and had a problem where randomly a process called "Google Chrome Helper" would take up about 1 core of resources until i would go to activity monitor and end it. now back to safari

I use for Chrome for websites that I don't care about blocking ads on and Firefox for others when in OS X. I use IE8 in both my XP and Win 7 VMs. I find Safari to be very poor in usability, design and rendering. I know some people love it but every time I try it I want to close it immediately. Just a personal preference I'd say but Safari would have to change completely for me to use it at all.

Definitely Chrome. I find firefox to be slow on startup and just not a smooth as chrome. Safari would be my second choice.

Since reading the replies to this post about using ClickToFlash with Safari, I decided to download it and try it.
Man! My webpages load hella faster now! Even the slowest loading website that I constantly browse all the time loads faster now which is... Mac Forums! (Sorry but it's true)
I'm starting to like Safari all over again. lol

Thanks for the replies, everyone. I like Safari - seems well-integrated with the Mac. Will try Chrome for comparison.

Hmmm...

Whenever I use clicktoflash, I go on youtube and the H.264 videos are WAAAAY slower than the flash to load...

Anyone else have this problem or the solution to my problem?

There is an option in ClickTo Flash to open the Youtube vids with Quicktime.

JUKE179r said:

There is an option in ClickTo Flash to open the Youtube vids with Quicktime.

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There's also an option to "whitelist" sites in ClickToFlash so it will not block flash from those particular sites.

There is ALSO an HTML5 opt-in beta from Google that has so far worked out BEAUTIFULLY for me and clients who are having issues with Flash (ie everyone).

Themuskr said:

I used Chrome for a while and had a problem where randomly a process called "Google Chrome Helper" would take up about 1 core of resources until i would go to activity monitor and end it. now back to safari

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I had the exact issue. My solution was the same also, move back to Safari. I've tried them all (Camino, Omniweb, fluid, chrome, FF, etc.) and ended up back at Safari. Now I learned about ClickToFlash I am liking Safari even more.

Thanks,

Rob.

Related to this thread is today's news that Vimeo is also going to offer HTML5.

I use the latest builds of these four, in no particular order.

1) Safari w/click to flash
2) Chrome
3) Opera
4) FireFox

Cheers...

chas_m said:

There's also an option to "whitelist" sites in ClickToFlash so it will not block flash from those particular sites.

There is ALSO an HTML5 opt-in beta from Google that has so far worked out BEAUTIFULLY for me and clients who are having issues with Flash (ie everyone).

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Thanks for posting that!

So, I've been using Chrome now since the original public beta release for OS X. At first, I liked the performance gains it offered enough to use it primarily over Safari. I have since completely changed to Chrome as my main browser, especially with the new beta that fixed annoying bugs like not being able to change the order of my bookmarks, and the added support for extensions. One click google maps ftw.

Also, the milliseconds saved in browsing aren't psychological. I haven't looked at the numbers to even see if there are supposed to be gains. It is just my experience that it is quicker to load pages that Safari will stall on.