I hope this will allow me to finally ditch Chrome on Mac. On Windows I changed to Firefox when Quantum was released but on my old Macbook Air it has been too slow to use as my main browser.
But now I own three Apple devices and have fully made the switch to Safari. I'm so locked into the Apple eco system now though but it has made my life many times easier using the browser that's designed by the hardware manufacturer of all my devices.
For my daily life, this has been a blessing. A lot of the complaints about Apple that people have (and I used to have as an avid Android user) are absolutely valid. MacBook Pros are hardly "Pro", missing ports are simply annoying, weird multi-display handling and breaking butterfly keyboards... all that is true to some extent.
BUT... at risk of sounding like marketing shill, in general my workflow and private usage of my Apple devices is a wonderful fresh breeze. 99.8% of the time things just work and I don't have to install third party drivers and adjust my fan speed to a Fibonacci percentage so that Ubuntu's WiFi works after waking the laptop from sleep.
Hell, a large portion of the added cost (at worse specs) compared to Dell or ThinkPad is completely worth it in order to have an amazing trackpad which is still miles ahead of any other device.
Maybe I should finally give Safari a serious go as well. I always avoided it due to its image of a less feature-rich browser.
As Gruber (https://daringfireball.net/2017/08/safari_should_display_fav...) said:
> It might sound silly if you’re not a heavy user of browser tabs, but I am convinced that the lack of favicons is holding back Safari’s market share.
One issue is that if you login to some sites (e.g. Gmail) in a private window and then close it, some processes keep running forever. They seem to use lot of memory and a bit of cpu. Terminating the entire browser is the only way to kill them.
1blocker works well enough ever since then that I had to look it up on my laptop. Also available on iOS but I use Purify there.