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Re:Safari adopts the Chrome/Firefox extension model by _qulr on Friday August 28, 2020 @06:40AM (#24303366)
> People keep talking about the UI as being an important differentiator. But I don't believe that's true, because the UI of all major browsers is decent.

UI is the differentiator of the Mac itself. Otherwise, why not just use Windows, which is "decent".

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Re:Safari adopts the Chrome/Firefox extension model by bad_user on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:19AM (#24303963)
TBH, I don't know why other people use Macs, but speaking in my own name, no, I'm not using it for its UI.

I use macOS because things usually just work, because it's a Unix, and because the available apps are good. I don't have a problem with the Windows 10 UI, I have a problem with everything else.

In fairness, switching from Linux to macOS because of the UI is an acceptable viewpoint.

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Re:Safari adopts the Chrome/Firefox extension model by pankajdoharey on Friday August 28, 2020 @10:05AM (#24304967)
It depends on people to people, for instance I use Mac because it has a Unix terminal with great commercial software support and decent GPU drivers something that is missing on Linux. UI is the last thing, in fact I would say the choice of UI on linux is far and beyond any other OS can even dream to offer.
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Re:Safari adopts the Chrome/Firefox extension model by recursive on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:29PM (#24306823)
Maybe it's just familiarity, but I strongly prefer Windows over MacOS. And I don't even like Windows.
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Re:Safari adopts the Chrome/Firefox extension model by dangus on Friday August 28, 2020 @09:09AM (#24304377)
The UI is probably what got people to switch from IE to Firefox.

Because Firefox had tabs!

But I agree, browser UI is irrelevant in 2020.

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