It’s not perfect but the balance of effort versus results is pretty good imho. The only thing I really miss is being able to disable JS per site, instead of globally, which Safari doesn’t allow :/
I gave Safari a try and I loved it, but the lack of Profiles made me switch back to Chrome. I hope they implement such feature in the future.
It's not as good as FF containers or separate profiles in terms of sandboxing/isolation, but in terms of UX it's pretty neat. I keep HN and all of my distractions in one tab group then just hit one key to hide them and only see the work context, all distractions are gone.
This approach works well enough for me because it feels super simple, although I miss FF containers a little bit.
> “Chrome 12 [an old version] was the best Chrome", but since I’ve come to see underneath that for me what I wanted was a fast tight browser, and once I had that, pretty much by definition most subsequent work was just gonna make it worse.
Safari is today’s fast tight browser I dare say.
I've been doing front-end dev for almost 20 years and now use Chromium very rarely and only in work related context.
I'm at the risk of sounding naive here, but using any browser that is not Chrome makes the world a slightly better place (just a tiny bit), same goes with helping your non-techie friends do the same.
(yes, I know Safari is not perfect, but Chrome is cancer/storefront and it is one often things that make use collectively a tiny bit more stupid)