Safari is often treated harshly, especially by developers working on websites. I also can’t recall if anyone ever said or wrote that he likes it as a user.

I personally am using it on all my devices and I enjoy it simplicity. I dislike the fact that there are very few good extensions for it, but I’m not sure if that’s a problem from developers or from Apple.

So, my question today is: what do you like or hate about Safari, that either made you use it or uninstall?

  • JackSkellington@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I love the UI however there are several dealbreakers:

    • cannot add other search engines besides the default ones (I use none of them)

    • extensions framework is terrible, almost non existent ecosystem; they frequently stop working a after new safari changes

    • only bearable with a good system wide ad blocker like AdGuard, which costs money

    If these issues would be addressed, it would be perfect browser for me

  • HangingFruit@czech-lemmy.euEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I like the minimalistic UI. I like the integration. I love the tab groups and as far as I know, the privacy is also good.

  • basskitten@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I love it. Clean, minimal, gets out of the way, does what I want. With the iCloud keychain password management, 2FA management, auto-fill-then-delete codes from message/email (iOS 17/macOS Sonoma), it’s a real time-saver.

    If you’re on a laptop for any amount of time during the day the battery life is unbeatable.

    • prwnr@programming.devOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I only recently heard about Orion. Is is that good? How the Mac app compares to Arc if you know? cause Arc is the other trending browser on MacOS that I heard and tried.

  • HollandJim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Safari is one of the browser platforms we develop for, and honestly it doesn’t deserve the hate. Jen Simmons is on fire with guiding Webkit and I can usually debug easier on Safari and Chrome than Firefox.

    Chromium, IMHO as a web dev since 1996, is more the New Explorer than Safari, especially where typography is concerned.

  • Simplelifelfk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    For 99% percent of my stuff for personal and work (I’m an IT guy), it just works. For the other 1%, I use Firefox.

  • Plantee@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Apple forces me to like it on iOS… happy when I (supposedly) can use Firefox later this year.