Safari vs Chrome on Mac

Comparison between Safari and Chrome

Safari and Chrome are good web browsers. Which one you prefer to? Maybe you should read this article.

As popular web browsers - Safari and Chrome, I prefer to Safari. It's fast and safe. Especially the latest version of Safari add some unique features, like Top Sites, Cover Flow and so on.

No matter which one you like, you can read this article about comparsion between Safari and Chrome. You might be pleasantly surprised by what you find.

Safari vs Chrome

On Chrome’s features Web site, they state “Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the Web faster, safer and easier.”

Apple’s Web site showcases several new features that they added to their latest version of Safari. The Cover Flow feature allows you to “flip through your site history or bookmarks like you flip through albums on iTunes.”

Usability

Safari is a fully featured web browser which offers many features in a user friendly manner. Safari almost resembles the layout of any common web browser making it easy to use. Chrome has redefined some of the standard features such as tabs, so a new user will have to go through a little learning curve.

Tabs

Safari uses the standard tab system where you have many tabs in the browser frame under a common menu bar. Chrome offers separate menus for each tab making each tab a separate web browser window. Unlike Safari, Chrome users can drag tabs and formulate separate web browser windows.

Launch Speed

Chrome has the best record for the speed compared to all main-stream web browsers. Google has build Chrome to be light weight and this makes Chrome faster than any other main-stream browser.

Plug-ins

Safari has a rich collection of plug-ins for various purposes. Chrome still supports a limited number of plug-ins and many of them come from Google itself.

Performance

When it comes to resource intensive tasks such as graphics rendering and executing complex JavaScript code, we see that both browsers behave relatively the same. This is when Safari runs on OSX, not on Windows.

Security

Safari inherits the rock solid security model from the platform (UNIX) and has a few vulnerabilities reported so far. Chrome is built with advanced security in mind and it has its own sand-box for checking for potential dangers in web content. As far as the security aspect is concerned we can safely conclude that both browsers stand at the same level at present.