Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome)

cebert

My only complaint about Safari is I wish Apple would fully adopt PWA standards on iOS. I believe they don’t want to because it would make the App Store less necessary.

PalmPilotProMax

>Apple: Switch from Chrome to Safari! Thanks, but I've already upgraded to Firefox.

andsoitis

Similar page for Chrome, without directly comparing to a specific competing browser: https://www.google.com/chrome/

phrotoma

I abandoned chrome for ff a few yrs ago when the privacy issues became impossible to ignore. I abandoned ff for safari about a year ago when performance problems became unbearable. My biggest annoyance was the lack of devtools until a single web search revealed that safari does in fact have a full featured set of devtools, you just need to turn them on. No complaints. Reader mode and hide distracting items are phenomenal, use them both daily.

ivanjermakov

Browser Performance Rankings: https://www.browserating.com/

iamshs

Proud Firefox user. Will suffer with it until my grave. This little fox has been giving me the beach ball on Mac ever since last year MacOS update, but I just Ctrl+Alt+Del and start it again....

hollow-moe

The headline is so funny. "please please please please, I beg you stay on safari, I swear we better than chrome please please please we really want your data"

joshuaS98

Chrome and Firefox have a decent developer experience, and their caniuse score > Safari.

FlyingAvatar

The one thing that keeps me from using Safari is web apps can't update their tab's favicon. That means if you load a site that uses the favicon for notifications you either (a) login when you have a notification and it will now forever seem like you have a notification or (b) login when you don't have a notification and it will forever seem like you don't have any notifications. Yes, you can clear a cache for a one time update, but that is hardly helpful.

layer8

Only available on Apple devices, so I’ll stick with Firefox.

jwr

So, do I get to use Web MIDI and upgrade firmware on my various devices in Safari now?

aurmc

I’ve tried switching to Safari a few times, but I keep struggling with finding an ad-blocking extension that Just Works. Aside from that, I like it, but just a couple minutes on the ad-covered Web makes me need to go crawling back to Chrome. I set up uBlock Origin Lite years ago in Chrome and it’s functionally fully set-it-and-forget-it. “Just use pi-hole” well sometimes I leave my house so that is an insufficient option.

fredsted

I've used Safari since I switched to Mac in 2009. It's always been fast and smooth, and the integration - like password sync and SMS 2FA keys - works great.

edam

Reminds me of the days of Microsoft trying to convince us IE was better than FF...

thisislife2

Everyone should avoid Google Chrome, and as such this campaign is welcome. But my major gripe with Safari is: 1. It is not multi-platform. A browser that isn't available for Windows, Linux, xBSD is not a browser I would use or recommend to others. 2. I don't want "Intelligent Tracking Prevention" or some limited Apple curated lists of content blockers - uBlock Origin should be fully functional in it. 3. No requirement of an "App Store" to install browser extensions. 4. No built-in AI bullshit. Rather make certain browser APIs open so that any other AI tools can use and manipulate it as the user wants. 5. Fully open source (in Safari, only Webkit is open source).

Almondsetat

Does anyonwle think this is so strange coming from Apple? Calling out a specific product by name like that?

B4uler5

I switched from Firefox on macos and ios about a year ago when things started to get a bit weird with Mozilla. Safari is a highly capable browser, light weight, great performance on both iphone and mac, and is just a really nice experience overall. If I could use it on linux and windows as well, I would.

rwaksmunski

For those needing uBlock Origin please give wBlock a try. It's also open source but uses native Safari content blocking APIs. It's faster and works and syncs with iPhones through iCloud.

FinnLobsien

I find this page super interesting because it's what you'd expect from a B2B SaaS vendor, not from Apple. You'd never see them build an "iPhone vs Samsung" page, for instance.

Jskewel

I will switch to Safari immediately once they expand the number of languages supported by auto-translate. The current selection is very limited, and almost clownish for 2026.