Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
by bredren on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:41AM
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Do you use content filtering / ad blocking technology in conjunction with Safari? Last I tried to use Safari, it seemed some of the most common tools could not be plugged in / added on to the browser.
Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
by vladvasiliu on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:58AM
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Safari is my daily driver too. Last I checked UBlock origin and Privacy Badger didn't work
I'm using AdGuard, on both desktop and mobile. It works well enough for my needs.
Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
by drevil-v2 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @03:03AM
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I use 1Blocker and StopTheMadness. Both via the Mac App Store. Works great.
Another 2 handy extensions: Tabs to Links and Tab Spaces.
I don't have any affiliation with any of these extensions; just a satisfied user.
Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
by AnonC on Sunday June 07, 2020 @05:21AM
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Safari 13 eliminated the previous extension scheme. So there’s no more uBlock Origin and similar blockers (there are content blockers, which work differently from uBlock Origin). Since the ad blocking extensions are lists of content to be blocked that’s given to Safari, one is better off using NextDNS or pi-hole for blocking ads (these will work across all apps too).
Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
by Diesel555 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:47PM
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Wipr is great. Both iOS and MacOS. Safari + keychain is unbeatable IMO. I tried onePassword and I use Brave for dev (Chrome has too much CPU usage, and firefox for Grid debugging). I run Brave / Safari / Chrome / Vivaldi. I find myself in Safari most outside of Dev (zero inside dev).
Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
by arafsheikh on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:55AM
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AdGuard works fine with Safari. I also use NextDNS on top.
Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
by jsf01 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:32PM
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Not as simple as just downloading an extension, but one could use a PiHole or similar network-wide ad blocking.
Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
by ytch on Sunday June 07, 2020 @04:09AM
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The two cons of Safari for me are:
- No AV1, Webp decoder
- No stable bookmark sync cross browser (for example, icloud bookmark sync to another Firefox in Windows is not stable)
except to these, Safari is still my daily browser.
Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
by dTal on Sunday June 07, 2020 @08:10AM
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>- Enter a word in the search bar and usually Siri will show you the exact website and just select it to go there. Other browsers will take you to search page first then you select the first result to go there
Huh? That's exactly what Firefox's "Awesome Bar" does.
Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
by drevil-v2 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @08:53AM
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Not really. Say I type in “Ikea” into Safari address bar and I have never visited Ikea.com nor is it in my bookmarks; the first option is “Siri suggestions... Ikea.com”. Either click on it or down+enter to go directly to Ikea.com
With Firefox, with the same starting conditions, there is no way to directly go to ikea.com by just typing in Ikea. If there is no history or bookmark then it will take you to a search for Ikea instead
Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
by robin_reala on Sunday June 07, 2020 @09:31AM
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In Firefox ctrl+enter prepends www. and appends .com to whatever word you’ve typed in the address bar, then loads it. So for www.ikea.com, just type ikea then press ctrl+enter.
Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
by drevil-v2 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @09:46AM
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That was just a simple example. The safari implementation is better, I type in “price” and it expands that to “Priceline.com”; just press enter to go directly there, otherwise either keep typing to narrow or down arrow and enter to search
Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
by fsflover on Sunday June 07, 2020 @12:09PM
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I use Duckduckgo for search and when I enter anything in the address bar and append !, then I am automatically redirected to the first result of the search. Works perfectly in Firefox.
Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
by noelsusman on Sunday June 07, 2020 @09:06AM
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As usual with Apple, Safari is great as long as you only ever use Apple devices.
Safari ticks all the boxes for me:
- Power consumption
- Minimal UI that is elegant and easy on the eyes
- Font rendering is much nicer (especially when compared to Firefox)
- Enter a word in the search bar and usually Siri will show you the exact website and just select it to go there. Other browsers will take you to search page first then you select the first result to go there
- SMS integration for 2FA
- Bookmarks UI is so much cleaner than any other browser.
Speaking of bookmarks, why the fuck does Edge and Firefox store any bookmarks created on your phone or tablet under a separate top level section "Mobile Bookmarks"? It is just so unnecessary and adds needless UI interaction just to get to it.