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Safari is just Apples Opera (before they went Blink and made themselves irrelevant).

They aren't great, just another proprietary browser. Every time I've used it has been sub-par. It reminded me a lot of Opera in that it was very opinionated, even if it tried to offer some feature. Apple makes money off of apps, not websites, though, so it makes sense they don't invest much into their browser.

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Safari has the fastest JavaScript engine. In many respects, Safari's implementation is top notch. Apple makes money off phones and people use Safari a lot on phones. I don't understand why people think Apple don't invest on Safari.

Because people are in arms about Web Integrity API, but a lot of the same people will crucify Safari (and Firefox) for not implementing a bunch of Chrome-only non-standards (like the plethora of hardware APIs)

And Opera had the fastest rendering engine. Still did not make it a good browser.

Subpar on what? That’s the important part. For my non-techie family, it seems to do everything they need WHILST saving a lot of battery life. If that’s the criteria, it’s a great browser.

I’d never use it due to lack of uBlock Origin and good dev tools, but it’s hard to argue with the speed and battery efficiency on macOS.

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