

The problems have always been with features and compatibility… Safari has long been as gentle as a feather duster on a Mac. Plus, the laptop was a lot cooler and quieter… None of this is new. Compared with Chrome, Safari kept the 13-inch MacBook Pro running an extra 1 to 2 hours on a charge. Safari used about 5% to 10% less RAM than Chrome, Firefox and Edge in my tests. Meanwhile, Apple’s built-in Safari browser has the best blend of privacy, performance and battery to offer on Macs, and it’s only getting better this fall with MacOS Big Sur…
EDGE 14 FOR MAC WINDOWS 10
Microsoft’s new Edge browser, rolling out to Windows 10 machines this summer and available now for download on a Mac, is based on Chromium, the same underlying technology as Chrome - yet it uses less of your Windows computer’s RAM and battery. While Chrome has gobbled up 69% of the desktop-laptop browser market share, according to NetMarketShare, its competitors, all with single-digit percentages, have been laser-focused on kicking Chrome square in the blue dot. Joanna Stern for The Wall Street Journal: A website Privacy Report in Safari allows users to easily see which cross-site trackers have been blocked.


As users sufferers of Google’s Chrome know very well, it’s a battery hog that causes your computer’s processor to work so hard it’s sometimes difficult to hear about the fan noise Google’s Chrome browser generates.
