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<blockquote data-quote="Discerptor" data-source="post: 1367640" data-attributes="member: 12177"><p>Technically Apple gets paid by Google to give its users' information to Google's advertisers while providing none of the fine-tuned privacy controls present in Chrome or Firefox, but that's beside the point. Safari's primary purpose is to make Apple's hardware and ecosystem look shinier (the last part of the sentence you quoted), something that one cannot accuse Chrome of doing by virtue of the fact that Google isn't generally in the hardware business. The Safari team's conveniently iTunes-format-only implementation of HTML5 audio and video support also detracts from the notion that Apple actually cares about Safari promoting open standards, an essential part of promoting a better web experience.</p><p></p><p>This is spinning out of tangible land and into browser philosophy, which I don't think the OP was looking to get into at all, though (and clearly I don't care deeply about it since I shamelessly switch primary browsers as one gains dominance over the others). I like Firefox mostly because the browsers all have identical speed now, Firefox's list of options and extensions is far more extensive than that of the competition (one of those extensions being the best way to browse without having information collected all over the place), and themes for Firefox actually do more than change the background color, allowing me to make it look like Safari instead of the ugly troll it really is. Tab candy is also a nice exposé-esque approach to managing tabs, but much like the Reader in Safari and the Incognito window in Chrome, it's icing on the cake that I wouldn't describe as a huge selling point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Discerptor, post: 1367640, member: 12177"] Technically Apple gets paid by Google to give its users' information to Google's advertisers while providing none of the fine-tuned privacy controls present in Chrome or Firefox, but that's beside the point. Safari's primary purpose is to make Apple's hardware and ecosystem look shinier (the last part of the sentence you quoted), something that one cannot accuse Chrome of doing by virtue of the fact that Google isn't generally in the hardware business. The Safari team's conveniently iTunes-format-only implementation of HTML5 audio and video support also detracts from the notion that Apple actually cares about Safari promoting open standards, an essential part of promoting a better web experience. This is spinning out of tangible land and into browser philosophy, which I don't think the OP was looking to get into at all, though (and clearly I don't care deeply about it since I shamelessly switch primary browsers as one gains dominance over the others). I like Firefox mostly because the browsers all have identical speed now, Firefox's list of options and extensions is far more extensive than that of the competition (one of those extensions being the best way to browse without having information collected all over the place), and themes for Firefox actually do more than change the background color, allowing me to make it look like Safari instead of the ugly troll it really is. Tab candy is also a nice exposé-esque approach to managing tabs, but much like the Reader in Safari and the Incognito window in Chrome, it's icing on the cake that I wouldn't describe as a huge selling point. [/QUOTE]
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