5 reasons to use Safari instead of Chrome

If you're not using Apple's web browser, you're missing out.

Author

Lewis Wallace
August 12, 2023

Which web browser do you use? If you make the smart move — firing up Apple’s Safari on your Mac, iPhone or iPad — congratulations. You’re a better person than me.

Like so many others, I keep using Google’s browser, despite all the legit reasons why I shouldn’t. For me, it’s mostly because I need Chrome for a couple of web-publishing tools.

Still, after reading this weekend’s how-to, I plan to use Safari more often when I don’t have to use Chrome. As our writer D. Griffin Jones points out, there are solid reasons why no Apple fan in their right mind should choose Chrome over Safari.

Also in this edition of The Weekender:

Enjoy your weekend!

— Lewis Wallace, managing editor

How-tos

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