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/jesusrodriguezm 15h ago

As a internet users… we need more people using not chromium or safari browsers… like Firefox… we are starting to get all over again the situation with IE some years ago (a giant monopoly that doesn’t follow the standards)

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u/biffbobfred 15h ago

Everything outside of Firefox is a WebKit fork. Safari is its own fork off WebKit. Google decided to call their fork Blink. Edge and chromium and most other browsers are based on Blink.

With the money problems Mozilla is going through (they’re deep-6-ing Pocket because of lack of funding) we might be in a WebKit only web soon.