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>This sentence is interesting given that Safari is faster in virtually every single usage model.

Both Chrome and Firefox made tremendous improvement. Safari 12 being the best and efficient making headlines meant Google and Firefox spend in the last 2+ years optimising. All while Safari 13 and later Safari 14 added quite a lot more Web features and made it slower.

Not sure about Safari 15 yet.

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I'm not sure what the conclusion of your statement is, but Safari is still head and shoulders faster than both Chrome and Firefox on macOS. Both on macOS 11.4 and Safari 14.1.1, and macOS 12 and Safari 15.

Safari never got slower. Chrome got embarrassed into effectively cleaning up its act a bit and managing the catastrophic memory usage, but it's still slower and less efficient. And it's still a memory disaster compared to its contemporaries.

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