YHK - yet another hacker news clone

My only complaint about Safari is I wish Apple would fully adopt PWA standards on iOS. I believe they don’t want to because it would make the App Store less necessary.

>Apple: Switch from Chrome to Safari!

Thanks, but I've already upgraded to Firefox.

Similar page for Chrome, without directly comparing to a specific competing browser: https://www.google.com/chrome/

I abandoned chrome for ff a few yrs ago when the privacy issues became impossible to ignore. I abandoned ff for safari about a year ago when performance problems became unbearable. My biggest annoyance was the lack of devtools until a single web search revealed that safari does in fact have a full featured set of devtools, you just need to turn them on. No complaints.

Reader mode and hide distracting items are phenomenal, use them both daily.

Browser Performance Rankings: https://www.browserating.com/

Proud Firefox user. Will suffer with it until my grave. This little fox has been giving me the beach ball on Mac ever since last year MacOS update, but I just Ctrl+Alt+Del and start it again....

The headline is so funny. "please please please please, I beg you stay on safari, I swear we better than chrome please please please we really want your data"

Chrome and Firefox have a decent developer experience, and their caniuse score > Safari.

The one thing that keeps me from using Safari is web apps can't update their tab's favicon. That means if you load a site that uses the favicon for notifications you either (a) login when you have a notification and it will now forever seem like you have a notification or (b) login when you don't have a notification and it will forever seem like you don't have any notifications.

Yes, you can clear a cache sometime for a one time update, but that is hardly helpful.

Only available on Apple devices, so I’ll stick with Firefox.

So, do I get to use Web MIDI and upgrade firmware on my various devices in Safari now?

I’ve tried switching to Safari a few times, but I keep struggling with finding an ad-blocking extension that Just Works. Aside from that, I like it, but just a couple minutes on the ad-covered Web makes me need to go crawling back to Chrome. I set up uBlock Origin Lite years ago in Chrome and it’s functionally fully set-it-and-forget-it.

“Just use pi-hole” well sometimes I leave my house so that is an insufficient option.

I've used Safari since I switched to Mac in 2009. It's always been fast and smooth, and the integration - like password sync and SMS 2FA keys - works great.

Reminds me of the days of Microsoft trying to convince us IE was better than FF...

Everyone should avoid Google Chrome, and as such this campaign is welcome. But my major gripe with Safari is:

1. It is not multi-platform. A browser that isn't available for Windows, Linux, xBSD is not a browser I would use or recommend to others.

2. I don't want "Intelligent Tracking Prevention" or some limited Apple curated lists of content blockers - uBlock Origin should be fully functional in it.

3. No requirement of an "App Store" to install browser extensions.

4. No built-in AI bullshit. Rather make certain browser APIs open so that any other AI tools can use and manipulate it as the user wants.

5. Fully open source (in Safari, only Webkit is open source).

Does anyonwle think this is so strange coming from Apple? Calling out a specific product by name like that?

I switched from Firefox on macos and ios about a year ago when things started to get a bit weird with Mozilla. Safari is a highly capable browser, light weight, great performance on both iphone and mac, and is just a really nice experience overall. If I could use it on linux and windows as well, I would.

For those needing uBlock Origin please give wBlock a try. It's also open source but uses native Safari content blocking APIs. It's faster and works and syncs with iPhones through iCloud.

I find this page super interesting because it's what you'd expect from a B2B SaaS vendor, not from Apple. You'd never see them build an "iPhone vs Samsung" page, for instance.

I will switch to Safari immediately once they expand the number of languages supported by auto-translate. The current selection is very limited, and almost clownish for 2026.

I made the switch on mobile a while back and adjusted quickly. I really don’t miss chrome there. I did try to switch from Arc to Safari on my laptop and my experience was much less pleasant. There’s just a ton of clunky ux on safari. I’ll give it a try again but once I made the mistake of dismissing the permissions popup that appears for every video call and it just never came back (subsequent meetings). I’m sure it’s in my settings somewhere but this felt crazy. I’m required to click approve to use my camera on every video call but if I hit ‘esc’ once then I’ll never be reprompted? That makes no sense.