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Chrome has used less power than Safari for a few years now. As far as I know, the only good reason to use Safari is to use FairPlay DRM for sites that need it. For all other purposes, Firefox or Chrome is superior. https://birchtree.me/blog/everyone-says-chrome-devastates-ma...


Interesting, thanks. I’ll give it another try. It certainly used to be a pig. I remember times when the fan on my MacBook sounded like a freaking hovercraft and you’d go into system monitor and see a Chrome process just sucking down every CPU cycle. You’d quit Chrome and the fans would spin down and stop. But if they’ve fixed that, maybe it’s worth another go.




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