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Comment on The Best Mac Browser by Donut Power

Donut Power — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:02:17 +0000

ive never had much enjoyment with Chrome on Mac. though i use the dev channel so that might be the problem. but the browser either maxes out the CPU (2.0GHz Core2Duo) or takes up a lot of RAM. sometimes it just acts glitchy or doesnt seem to cooperate with certain sites when trying to login or view an overlay.
im still on Firefox 3.6 and while that does glitch up now and again, i still get the full functionality of extensions. Safari seems to be slow as molasses for me. just loading Google , seems to stall for several seconds before displaying the page.

on my iBook i cant use Chrome so i stuck with Camino and the PowerPC version of Firefox 5. Camino ends up having the better performance but lacks add-ons and themes. :\

Comment on The Best Mac Browser by Reiter

Reiter — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:02:05 +0000

Chrome causes my Macbook Pro (Santa Rosa) to spin its hard drive non-stop, to the point that I demoted it from the toolbar. Any suggestions to stop this?

Comment on The Best Mac Browser by Bobb

Bobb — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:01:56 +0000

Why only use one browser?

Comment on The Best Mac Browser by Tim Ballard

Tim Ballard — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:01:41 +0000

Having recently bailed on Windows and the PC to world of OSX I’ve just undergone my own search for the best browser. I basically came to the same solution, despite Firefox being my usual browser of choice on PC, Chrome is my favorite Mac browser.

Comment on The Best Mac Browser by Ageyl

Ageyl — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:01:25 +0000

2 about Chrome on Mac:
- no three fingers up/down for home/end, although Firefox lost this in Lion
- F5 doesn’t do refresh on Chrome – can be changed in key binding prefs but this should be working out of the box

These might not be big deals for some but they really bother me.

Comment on The Best Mac Browser by Bukka

Bukka — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:00:40 +0000

I loved Chrome. But then it went through a stage of just stopping working. I’ll have the browser open for anything from 2 minutes to 2 days (usually closer to the former), and then all of a sudden it drops its connection from the net. Everything else on the Mac works perfectly fine, but Chrome just won’t load another page. This continues until I close the browser, and launch it again…then the process repeats.

I reluctantly revert back to Safari which works how it’s supposed to.

Plenty of Googling has not found any fixes. Has anyone else had a similar experience?

Comment on The Best Mac Browser by 7082ahk

7082ahk — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:00:31 +0000

I love Chrome, but it doesn’t seem to play nice with Silverlight which is needed for Netflix. From what I can tell it doesn’t support GPU acceleration on my new Mac mini. My temps went through the roof watching Netflix on Chrome. Silverlight’s compatibility page also doesn’t list Chrome compatibility past version 4.

I’ve switched to Safari for the time being for web video. Chromes current lack of fullscreen support in Lion is also a downer (but likely a short lived one).

Comment on The Best Mac Browser by 123eli

123eli — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:59:18 +0000

Firefox crashing? On 10.5.8, I use the Firefox nightly build and it crashes less often than Safari. Either way, I’ve grown far too fond of about:config to consider switching.

Comment on The Best Mac Browser by Mister Jones

Mister Jones — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:59:11 +0000

I agree. I’ve been using Chrome for a while now and it’s getting better all the time.

Comment on The Best Mac Browser by youliveinabin

youliveinabin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:58:17 +0000

The question of ‘best Mac browser’ is, I think, moot. More pertinent would be the best 2 Mac browsers as you’re always going to need at least that – no browser displays everything correctly.

I tend to switch between Chrome and Safari more or less equally.