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by outoftheabyss 1918 days ago
It’s not so much memory management, it’s battery that is a significant benefactor when using safari in my experience; of course only relevant using MacBook on the go. I do find chrome more sluggish on my 2015 5k iMac as well
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I totally agree with you. Still, saving some battery to have busted websites is almost never a good trade-off.

Safari is still my default browser. It has better password manager integration and a number of OS integration features that I prefer. But, like I said, I find myself having to switch to another browser for a number of common websites.

Furthermore, on my M1 Macbook Air, battery life is quite literally an irrelevant concern. Not only is the battery life longer, but the difference in draining rate between light and heavy applications seems to be greatly reduced compared to Intel (by my subjective measurement). Of course, I can understand that not everyone owns this particular machine.