On iOS I use Safari - primary for 1st party integration and because I do my REAL browsing on the Mac.
On the Mac, Safari is my primary browser. It's....fine. You do get the 1st party integration which I like, it's easy on battery (comparatively), and it syncs with iOS Safari.
As my backup, I use Brave - I understand they have corporate issues, but it's really only for sites that require Chromium based browsers, so I use it < 5% of the time. I use an ad-blocker with Safari (Wipr 2) but NOT with Brave as I'm looking for maximum compatibility. The other reason I chose Brave is that they don't have an always running background process for updates and who know what else, like Chrome does. Tried Vivaldi and didn't like it. Firefox is fine, but has some sites that it doesn't work with.
My real beef with Safari is that there's so many features that I'd love for it to have (as default or optional) that frankly, Apple just doesn't seem to want to take the time and effort to implement. Whether that's better support for PWA, being able to turn off Javascript on a per site basis, vertical tabs, etc.
As an aside, I subscribe to Kagi and LOVE it. I haven't used Orion, and frankly wish they would stick to their knitting as I really want the search product to live long and prosper.
On the Mac, Safari is my primary browser. It's....fine. You do get the 1st party integration which I like, it's easy on battery (comparatively), and it syncs with iOS Safari.
As my backup, I use Brave - I understand they have corporate issues, but it's really only for sites that require Chromium based browsers, so I use it < 5% of the time. I use an ad-blocker with Safari (Wipr 2) but NOT with Brave as I'm looking for maximum compatibility. The other reason I chose Brave is that they don't have an always running background process for updates and who know what else, like Chrome does. Tried Vivaldi and didn't like it. Firefox is fine, but has some sites that it doesn't work with.
My real beef with Safari is that there's so many features that I'd love for it to have (as default or optional) that frankly, Apple just doesn't seem to want to take the time and effort to implement. Whether that's better support for PWA, being able to turn off Javascript on a per site basis, vertical tabs, etc.
As an aside, I subscribe to Kagi and LOVE it. I haven't used Orion, and frankly wish they would stick to their knitting as I really want the search product to live long and prosper.
