![]() It also attempts to scrub fingerprinting, which makes it harder for websites to identify you in the future. Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2 (ITP 2) was an update to a Safari feature introduced in High Sierra that attempts to combat cross-site tracking, making it harder for websites to follow you on the web. ![]() The company has a more direct incentive to provide you with a browser that works well with other Apple products.Īs a sign of this good faith, Apple regularly introduces new privacy protection measures to Safari. ![]() Apple’s software is mostly free, but only for Apple customers, and is only valuable as much as it makes Apple hardware more attractive to the customer. ![]() In contrast to Google, Apple’s business model is primarily based on selling its hardware to you. If that sounds a little Orwellian, Chrome on macOS probably isn’t for you. While you can tweak your Google settings to protect your privacy to some degree, you’ll never be completely safe with a company whose business model is built on obtaining your data. Safari uses the same buttons and symbols as the rest of macOS, which leads to a more seamless experience. Your results will not be trusted because of this. End result: process uses 50 MB, each of its 10 threads 'uses' 1 MB, and 40 MB is 'missing'. Obviously, it’s less than ideal to force a user to learn an entirely separate workflow and user interface when they’re used to one already. In many real-world programs, you are likely to find that 90 of all memory allocated to a process cannot be uniquely accounted to any of its threads. Thankfully this is no longer the case, but it was a huge pain for far too long. Chrome used its own notification setup, that didn’t integrate with the Notification Center on a Mac. The old notification system was also a mess. But Chrome didn’t follow this feature until March 2019-half a year later. For example, macOS Mojave introduced Dark Mode in September 2018, which Safari supported out of the gate. ![]() Similarly, most Mac apps have their own preferences window Chrome uses a website in a tab for that.Ĭhrome is also slower to catch up with new macOS features than Safari. For example, most Mac apps close instantly when you hit Cmd + Q Chrome, by default, makes you hold the combo down for a few seconds before it quits (though you can turn that feature off by clicking Chrome in the menu bar and disabling Warn Before Quitting). ![]()
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