Month: September 2021

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Browsers

I really want to like Safari. I really do. Being native to the Mac, it’s obviously the best choice since it’s so integrated into the O/S, but I just can’t.

While it has features I love (automatically offering to enter those two-factor authentication numbers), there are so many little glitchy things that drive me crazy. For instance, all of a sudden it decided it wasn’t going to play the video part of videos. It plays the sound, but all I see is a black square. The Safari Technology Preview version fixed that, it has its own set of issues. It seems like Apple fixes one thing and two others break. And then there’s the whole other issue with any of the Apple-approved (because you can now only get extensions through the App Store) adblocker extensions in Safari. They all suck. GIVE ME uBLOCK ORIGIN!

I was a Chrome user for years, but I hated the way it sucked up memory and brought my Mac to its knees (and not in a good way, you pervs). I’ve tried the Brave Browser, Firefox, and even Opera. Each one has at least one issue that renders them unusable for me.

I’m currently on the new Microsoft Edge. I hate to admit it, but of everything I’ve used, it—shockingly, since it is a Microsoft product—is working the best. It’s built on Chrome, but doesn’t seem to suck memory the way Chrome does. And while it doesn’t have that nifty TFA feature built into Safari, it at least plays videos properly. All the Chrome extensions that I want to use work (including uBlock Origin!), so it looks like it might be my de facto choice until Apple gets their shit together.

I’m not holding my breath on that one.

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