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Comment by aaronbrethorst | Hacker News Reader

Cool to hear that Chrome is faster than Safari, but that's not why I'm going to stick with Safari.

I use Safari because of Chrome's memory bloat, Safari's text message MFA auto-fill features, and Safari's cross-platform (iOS/macOS) password manager.

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Not sure whether it is allowed to work on iOS, but Chrome also has cross-platform sync of passwords, tabs, history and other settings.

It does work on iOS. It can do system wide password management.

I'd probably use Safari more if it wasn't for me being used to Chrome's dev tools. Safari is a lot less resource hungry, artificial benchmarks aside.

> I use Safari because of Chrome's memory bloat, Safari's text message MFA auto-fill features, and Safari's cross-platform (iOS/macOS) password manager.

What do you think of Firefox? :)

Not OP but I have exclusively used Safari since the first version and recently switched to Firefox, and the password manager not being able to use iCloud Keychain is really a major bummer.

For such a long time Firefox didn't take being a native Mac OS citizen seriously, with scrolling not being natively implemented, form fields feeling "off" and in general just feeling like a Windows app in a Cocoa window.

Luckily those days are long gone now, and Firefox now feels much more like a native app, save for a couple of dialog boxes here and there. But having used iCloud Keychain for such a long time, and there being no option to import my 500+ passwords, it really has been a pain in the ass to switch browsers.

Also, I think it's the only browser with Apple Pay on macOS.

Also Chrome is the worst, most pervasive spyware ever developed.

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