Week 387 was posted by Charanjit Chana on 2025-03-24.
After upgrading to a new MacBook Pro a few months ago, I have stuck to using just Safari as my web browser. It's been fine.
Developer tools are still not on par with Chromium browsers, but totally useable.
Tab Groups are good, I was already using them on my old MacBook, but I use them for specific scenarios and then they get forgotten.
I've adopted Compact tabs in Safari, which is fine, but the browser bar can become too small to be useful. Works great on a Mac and an iPad but its not for me on the iPhone.
I now use Extensions but sparingly. I am not deep into it an to be honest, I don't want to be.
The one browser exception
I only needed a separate browser once, and that was to test scroll driven animations which have actually just come to the Safari Technology Preview, but at the time I opted for Firefox. I knew if I downloaded Chrome I'd give in and make it my default, but my decision means Safari still comes first.
So on all my personal devices, I'm now using Safari and not hating it.
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