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by mikeash 5289 days ago
In addition to what others have said, Safari 5.1 moved to a subprocess model somewhat like Chrome but the change went severely wrong. Memory usage skyrocketed, and speed and stability both took a big dive. After using Safari pretty much exclusively since it was originally released, the awful 5.1 release prompted me to switch to Chrome and I haven't looked back since.

Apple's attention really is turned to the mobile space today, and the non-mobile Safari suffers for it.