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fleshweasel posted:Safari is good. I hope this helps you. Spec Ops The Line has crashed a few times on me. The xbox 360 driver didn't work with my wireless adapter and I had to get a newer unsigned version of the driver to get it working. I haven't had time to play much else I haven't formed an opinion on it being stable or not overall.
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Phoenixan posted:It largely depends on the level of optimization. It's not unlike when you come across a lovely console-to-PC port. Valve & Blizzard have generally done a good job with their games on additional platforms. Dota and TF2 are both pretty crappy from my experiences (the former was not even that good as a spectator client). Starcraft and Diablo weren't that terrible though, I'll admit.
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Aug 29, 2014 06:12
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Pivo posted:One thing sucks about OS X. Safari. gently caress Safari.
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Aug 29, 2014 15:12
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Chrome has worked great for me. Safari feels slower.
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Aug 29, 2014 15:26
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Safari has worked great for me. Chrome feels slower. Jokes aside if you run Chrome on your phone and Mac and PC or are heavily in Googles ecosystem it's not bad. I think they just launched a 64bit version (wow) so it can now eat up even more memory. If you don't give a poo poo about millions of exensions and greasemonkeys and having your tabs available everywhere Safari is fine.
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Aug 29, 2014 15:47
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What is the advantage of Safari then? I try it out once in a while but see no reason to switch.
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Aug 29, 2014 16:19
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Safari is the most power efficient browser on OS X.
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Aug 29, 2014 16:23
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fleshweasel posted:Safari is the most power efficient browser on OS X. It also has iCloud Keychain which is very handy for generating passwords and saving them.
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Aug 29, 2014 16:24
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And also iCloud Tabs and Reading List. Basically, go with the browser that you run on your phone.
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Aug 29, 2014 16:25
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Mu Zeta posted:What is the advantage of Safari then? I try it out once in a while but see no reason to switch.
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Aug 29, 2014 16:25
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Basically use whatever browser you want to use, but if you're going to go around spouting dumb stuff like "Safari is poo poo!" or "Chrome feels slower imho" I'm gonna laugh at you because they're all the same thing.
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Aug 29, 2014 16:26
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Mu Zeta posted:What is the advantage of Safari then? I try it out once in a while but see no reason to switch. I think it's more energy efficient than Chrome. Whenever I open up activity monitor Chrome is always high on the energy impact list
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Aug 29, 2014 16:47
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Whirlwind Jones posted:Basically use whatever browser you want to use, but if you're going to go around spouting dumb stuff like "Safari is poo poo!" or "Chrome feels slower imho" I'm gonna laugh at you because they're all the same thing. They're both Webkit-ish, but they're not the same thing. Safari *is* more power-efficient, Chrome has more extensions and the whole Google ecosystem behind it, Safari has the whole iCloud ecosystem with it. I just don't like Safari for personal reasons I guess, I don't feel "at home" with it. I don't enjoy using it. It's not really any kind of technical reason. Chrome is loving annoying sometimes too - trackpad gestures only sometimes work, dev tools are laggy as hell, it eats up RAM and gobbles up CPU time like nobody's business.
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Aug 29, 2014 16:53
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Whirlwind Jones posted:Basically use whatever browser you want to use, but if you're going to go around spouting dumb stuff like "Safari is poo poo!" or "Chrome feels slower imho" I'm gonna laugh at you because they're all the same thing. But Safari really does scroll much smoother. 
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Aug 29, 2014 16:54
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Yeah Safari has the advantage of being built by Apple so it works best with the software and hardware but at the same time it's not updated as often nor is it as open for developers etc. Those aren't necessarily bad things, though.Pivo posted:They're both Webkit-ish, but they're not the same thing. For something we use a whole bunch web browsers are totally garbage. E - although I guess websites play a big part in browsers feeling bad. Sprat Sandwich fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Aug 29, 2014 |
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Aug 29, 2014 17:03
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Sprat Sandwich posted:I think they just launched a 64bit version (wow) so it can now eat up even more memory. Only for people on the beta channel, it's not in public distro yet. Oh God, those comments, some people are locked in full sperg mode. All it means to me is Chrome finally gets to run Java apps on the Mac, big whoop to me, deal maker/breaker to others.
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Aug 29, 2014 17:09
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Safari has the best scrolling, zooming and general navigation, yeah. People don't give enough credit to what browsers accomplish considering what a mess the web can be.
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Aug 29, 2014 17:13
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What's the best adblocker for safari?
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Aug 29, 2014 17:38
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fleshweasel posted:Safari has the best scrolling, zooming and general navigation, yeah. I honestly use safari over chrome because the zooming is better.
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Aug 29, 2014 18:50
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The solution is to install Firefox
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Aug 29, 2014 19:11
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I actually use Firefox when I need to spoof my location to listen to Mariners games on the radio. 
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Aug 29, 2014 19:22
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Chrome has flash built-in while Safari does not. One less thing to install and keep updated. Also, I game all the time in boot camped Win7 on my 2012 MBP and it's perfectly fine.
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Aug 29, 2014 20:08
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Luceo posted:Chrome has flash built-in while Safari does not. 
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Aug 29, 2014 20:11
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IMO the main advantage for Chrome is the syncing that it does across platforms. I can have basically the same browsing setup on a Mac at home, a PC at work, an iPhone, and an iPad. Safari can only do this if there is no PC hardware involved.
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Aug 29, 2014 20:59
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Chrome has vastly better cross-platform support and syncing, better extension library and management, better integration with the services that more people use, multiple profile support, and IMO a much better UI/UX that seems to be designed by people who have actually used other tab-based applications (I haven't use Safari beta on Yosemite - can you middle click a tab to close it w/o relying on external extensions yet?). These are more important to me than power efficiency.
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Aug 29, 2014 21:00
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withak posted:IMO the main advantage for Chrome is the syncing that it does across platforms. I can have basically the same browsing setup on a Mac at home, a PC at work, an iPhone, and an iPad. Safari can only do this if there is no PC hardware involved. They actually will sync browsing info to 3rd party browsers on Windows if you install the iCloud Control Panel. That's what I use since I have a Windows desktop but an iPad and iPhone, works pretty well.
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GokieKS posted:Chrome has vastly better cross-platform support and syncing, better extension library and management, better integration with the services that more people use, multiple profile support, and IMO a much better UI/UX that seems to be designed by people who have actually used other tab-based applications (I haven't use Safari beta on Yosemite - can you middle click a tab to close it w/o relying on external extensions yet?). These are more important to me than power efficiency.
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Aug 29, 2014 21:21
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I've tried to stick with Safari, but honestly it's always started to hang and get slow for me with all the tab hoarding I do. The Safari in Yosemite is a nice upgrade, but still chugs a bit when I have a lot open while Chrome has always been like butter. It might just be that the Safari Adblock extensions are the problem, but I'm not using a browser without a blocker at this point so it's kind of moot. That plus uBlock for Chrome has finally given us a less resource hungry plugin. I do miss the scrolling in Safari, though.
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I really don't get why Chrome vs Safari is even a thing. They're similar enough in performance that it ultimately comes down to personal preferences. Why should I care whether goons are using the same browser as me? Are you guys getting kickbacks or something? E: Also, what's the difference between Safari and Chrome scrolling? I'm not finding any differences at all??? E2: Is there an SALR extension for safari? I don't want to have to click! dik-dik fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Aug 29, 2014 |
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Whirlwind Jones posted:Why are you posting positives for Safari while trying to support Chrome? This would be funny if I didn't still come across flash on a regular basis. Safari's a wonderful browser, but gently caress having to install flash and keep it updated when Google will do it for me and patch any vulnerabilities before Adobe even knows they exist.
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Aug 29, 2014 21:47
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Whirlwind Jones posted:Why are you posting positives for Safari while trying to support Chrome? Especially when Google hasn't been great about that whole "keeping Flash updated" thing.
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Aug 29, 2014 21:51
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I'm definitely starting to realize the virtues of leaving Flash uninstalled and using Safari so that places that want to serve you Flash will often give you HTML5 instead. Then if I really must use a Flash-based site then I can use Chrome just for that.
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dik-dik posted:E: Also, what's the difference between Safari and Chrome scrolling? I'm not finding any differences at all??? A few years ago Safari added scrolling based on core animation, which vastly smoothed out scrolling of complex pages and/or on old machines. 10.8 I think applied it to all scrollviews, so Chrome may have gotten it then.
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FordPRefectLL posted:I was just about to ask that. Parallels has a student discount and VMWare Fusion appears not to, but VMWare Fusion seems to do exactly what I need. VMWare does have a discount if you're looking at Pro. They prefer to let campus bookstores and the like handle it, but you can also buy online. Regular Fusion is already so cheap (in VMWare dollars, anyway) that they don't discount it except for a sale a couple times a year.
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Aug 29, 2014 22:04
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Using Safari over Chrome right now due to clicktohtml5. If Chrome can get that I would switch over immediately.
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Aug 29, 2014 22:27
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dik-dik posted:What's the best adblocker for safari? I've had no complaints with AdBlock.
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Some of the failings of Safari are probably attributable to the spat between Apple and Google; for example, Google refuses to release a QuickTime-compatible component for VP8/9. On the other hand, Google forked WebKit because Apple's group were working too slow (for example, Safari is the only major browser that doesn't have unprefixed CSS flexbox compatability).
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Aug 29, 2014 22:52
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I like Chrome for porn and Safari for regular use. Chrome eats up too much memory for my laptop and my battery suffers during long school days.
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Parallels question: Is there any trick to get a guest instance of win8.1 to properly format an external usb3 ssd as ntfs? I've tried, and the virtualized windows sees the disk perfectly, but everything else sees the drive as corrupted. I'd hate to pony up for either tuxera or paragon when I have a activated copy of win8 on the machine. Alternately, has anyone had any formatting problems with win8 bootcamp?
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carry on then posted:A few years ago Safari added scrolling based on core animation, which vastly smoothed out scrolling of complex pages and/or on old machines. 10.8 I think applied it to all scrollviews, so Chrome may have gotten it then. Chrome with Intel graphics on OSX does not have full acceleration support for rasterization, there is an outstanding case regarding some defective GL API. Presumably not the same as whatever Safari uses, just look at chrome://gpu/ for a tone of workarounds enabled. 
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