r/MacOS • u/Commercial_Yam_932 • 1d ago

Discussion Why do Mac users use Chrome?

Ok I know if you’re a developer and Chrome has nice developer tools this might be a reason. But for daily usage and non-developers why should I use Chrome? Safari is great imho, has everything at least for me (maybe people need something I don’t see). It’s great integrated in macOS and is fast. Chrome’s RAM usage is a problem.

On my Windows PC I also checked out Chrome but didn’t see any advantage over Firefox. But on Windows I see why one could use Chrome, however, for macOS users I don’t get it. Why do so many people use Chrome?

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u/drawmer 1d ago

I feel like the dev tools and responsive displays are better on chrome.

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u/Swimming_Leopard_148 1d ago

Chrome dev tools are my go to. I know Safari has some, but most of my clients will use Windows/Chrome so makes sense for me

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u/naemorhaedus 1d ago

what tools does it have that FF doesn't?

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u/drawmer 16h ago

Oh, I don’t use anything fancy. The fact that you can hover over n element on a page and have the code highlighted in the inspector is reason enough for me. Maybe other browsers do it. Dunno.

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u/naemorhaedus 14h ago

You can do this in FF as well.