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Safari is very fast, not sure where you got the idea that it's slow?

Safari's tracking protection works very well; we know because Safari ad prices have dropped significantly: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/12/09/apples-safari-ad-...

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Safari page loading is fast but from my experience the actual app is slow (on the newest MBP no less). It's the only browser where I can type something into the URL bar and press enter quickly, expecting it will take me to the top history result (e.g. type 'tw' and press enter to go to twitter.com) but actually beat out the loading of the history / bookmarks results and have Safari simply google the string 'tw' instead. This happens all the time for me in Safari and never happened once in Chrome.

If only Safari had something comparable to uMatrix, uBlock and youtube enchancer suite. But apparently the APIs that would’ve been useful for the first two are a bit crippled in the latest Safari.

Hopefully this can be fixed some day. I’d gladly switch from Firefox.

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