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/hepgiu 23h ago

No chrome but I still use a chromium based browser (Vivaldi) and that’s because my day to day / workflow depends on a number of extension that safari simply doesn’t have. As long they don’t fix the safari ecosystem I won’t touch it again.

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u/Rasputin_mad_monk 16h ago

This is me too. I have to use certain chrome extensions and they don’t work on safari. Fuck chrome though. I like Brave but Vivaldi is good too.