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Are Safari, Firefox, or Microsoft Edge really better alternatives.

This is due to processes such as the Google Chrome Helper (Renderer) often consuming a disproportionate amount of CPU resources and memory.

I tested Safari, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge on both macOS and Windows 10 and they hog resources too when youre using them as your main browser with multiple tabs running.

But if I switch to Firefox or Microsoft Edge or Safari, I have, more or less, the same resource hogging issues based on my testing.

So much so that I get warnings at the top of Safari about web pages using too much memory.

And I typically stream cable TV news in one of the tabs in either Safari or Chrome.

Brooke Crothers I was a founding member of CNET news and hardware editor at CNET, a contributing technology reporter for the New York Times, and a reporter and editor at the Asian Wall Read More I was a founding member of CNET news and hardware editor at CNET, a contributing technology reporter for the New York Times, and a reporter and editor at the Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly -- the latter in Japan, where I lived for ten years.

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This is a very Chrome-like browser, but its also a rather Windows-like one.

Its a remarkably, surprisingly solid app even in this pre-launch edition.

Even that we already know that its missing a couple of key features, still you can get a feel for whether Microsoft Edge is worth replacing Safari as your main browser.

That gets it a solid base that happens to also give it a Mac version.

If you were thinking of moving from Safari and didnt want to risk a pre-beta developer version of Microsoft Edge, you could download Chrome and you would get pretty much the same feel.

That wouldnt be either fair or even all that useful given how unfinished this release of Edge is.

For a browser that looks like Chrome, for instance, Microsoft Edge currently takes up around a third less disk space than Googles offer.

But then if youre tight on space, Safari is a head-scratching is-that-really-right ten times smaller than Edge.

If you were checking out Activity Monitor while running these browsers or if you are on a MacBook with little space, youd unquestionably say that Safari was the lightest.

Thats a key promise from its Windows version, that Microsoft Edge will be faster than any of them.

We have no complaints about how quickly it loads any website we tried with it, but we havent been knocked out either.

Theres good reason to hope that a final release will be quicker, but theres also reason to expect that it will be bigger, too, because this version of Edge is missing a couple of features.

Whats missing are some extra features but these could be what makes you decide to move to Edge.

Its going to be like Safaris reading list, but rather than that bookmarking kind of feature, Collections will be a research tool.

Youll be able to drag images and text into it, and then share some or all with others.

This will be the whole, horrible, long-forgotten Internet Explorer built into Edge so that, if you need it, you can use in-house sites that require the old standard.

While that search engine is, unsurprisingly, promoted on the startup page of Edge, if you scroll down, you also get news.

A collection of headlines and stories from Microsoft News is right there in your browsers main page.

Weve compared it before to both Google News and the basic, non-subscription tier of Apple News.

Chrome Vs Safari Software That Matters

Features are great, and are also easy to compare, but its the feel of a piece of software that matters.

Thats got to be more so with browsers than with just about anything because you will spend so much time using it.

This isnt a reason to switch browsers, but it is a reason to always have two on your Mac, and on your Windows box too.

The buttons and controls are different and if youre used to seeing a site in Safari, it is noticeably different when you try it in Firefox.

Chrome Vs Safari Code For Any

Separately, you can always see the source code for any site you visit.

Chrome Vs Safari For Mac