Just a random Sunday morning post, Ive been using my Windows machine for a bit and thought Id switch back to my Mac Mini (stats above, it also has 10gig built in, take that M1!) and I’ve been using Safari really for everything web based. I installed Firefox, which wasnt too bad, but has never really matched the snappyness of Safari and I thought ‘Okay, well its third party so maybe it’s not as optimised’, but just installed Google Chrome this morning and man, it runs like a total dog.

It’s so heavy! The lag while resizing browser windows is HORRIBLE. I know Chrome is a giant beast of a browser, but it makes me wonder how much of the lag is macOS doing it on purpose to promote Apple’s own brower. Yes, Im a cynical sod, but it’s night and day difference even between Firefox and Safari, but Chrome is a terrible experience IMO.

Again, this isnt anything new, it’s just a real surprise that we’ve come so far and the differences between first party and everything else is so skewed it makes me wonder whether its Google’s fault, or Apple’s.