You could say I was a fan of Google Chrome. Before Chrome update last year, I did not have "favorite" browser. " I rode between Safari, Chrome, Firefox, trying all the functions offered by the three major players in the world of web browsers for OS X. At some point, I'm a week yuzal Opera. My browser requirements have always been fairly standard: a few tabs open, easy reading, synchronization with mobile devices. It was also important that when you change your browser, I could not bother to configure the system from scratch. So why did I come back to Safari?
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When I started to use your iPad as the main computer last year, I became increasingly annoyed by iCloud synchronization to Safari and the absence of major changes in the design that has not changed since the first iPhone. I rarely refuse from the system due to its stagnation, but in Safari on iOS 6 there were some problems with the synchronization of bookmarks and tabs that are already starting to get. I liked the speed of Safari, but the native integration with iOS was prone to error, and has already become annoying.
On the other hand, Google Chrome for iOS has been promising, familiar, and comfortable enough browser. Chrome I liked the ability to integrate multiple workflows in one that allowed me to save time when switching between apps on my iPad, and the synchronization was almost perfect. I also appreciated the excellent implementation of voice dictation in Google, and his understanding of my requests. Although it should be MarkThat their voice search could not compete with Siri. Google promoting its Chrome browser for iOS, so that he was able to run queries not only simple, but also quite demanding users.
A few weeks after the publication of my reviews IOS 7I decided to remove Chrome on all your devices and return to Safari, as the main and only browser on their iPhone, iPad and two Macs.
Without looking back, I was pleased with the new Safari, even taking into account the problems about which I will say more.
What happened?
Many people ask me why I refused to use Chrome and went back to Safari. It's a fair question, because I was one of the preachers of the Chrome, loved its capabilities and criticized Safari, and the iOS 6 as a whole.
I had no problems with the Chrome app, but I have a problem with Google, as a company that supports the browser.
I have forgiven the Google, when they sent me a well-targeted advertising, after scanning my e-mail for keywords; when they started to brake terribly; when they started to push Google+ into your every product. I even forgive them when they announcedThat in the future, their browser will be some problem on Apple devices. The obvious fiasco.
Google has created a place of wonderful technology, they have a great team of engineers and designers working on applications. However, the company's business model, which focuses on advertisements, forced them to adopt a strategy that gives me a terrible inconvenience. Google+ slide in advertising was their Rubicon, because I began to wonder: "Do I really should use Google services and applications from them. "
I'm not obsessed with privacy, but I'm not going to support the advertising business. Damn, this site has advertisements. As I see it, those who live and work on the Internet face a number of compromises: you give a little of your personal information in the form of cookies in your browser, and surf the Internet, but in return you get excellent web services that do things that were unimaginable just a few years ago.
But the problem with Google is that they own too many compromises in one place: they know where I'm going with their cards; they know the sound of my voice with their service Voice Search; they know that I get an e-mail Gmail; they know what I do with the calendar. With the Chrome browser, they can keep track of my search, what sites I sit and what my preferences, connection speed, and more - all in the name of the advertisements. They control all aspects of Google's social networking, and I do not want this, but I have to to use it, if I want to talk to a get-together or watch videos with limited access to YouTube. And now they want to have to use my face as a sign of quality for the ad. They often sayThat it was "interesting" from a social point of view.
Of course, if I want to use the applications or services of other companies, I might have to provide the same data itself, but Google eerily uses these data from their applications and Web services in advertisements against my will. Apple also knows my email, my calendar, my Siri requests and stories of my viewing on the Internet.
Still, Google receives directly benefit of users through a gradual reduction in privacy on the web. Twitter and Facebook are also based on the ads, but they have not made the world's leading browser search platform, application maps, video sharing sites, as well as free e-mail service.
My problem is that the "quit Google» is simply not possible. This mythical journey that many have begun to empty return to google.com. I still need to use Google Search, because it gives the best results. I need to use their personal Gmail account, at least for YouTube and web services, to which I subscribed before. I also need Google Maps. Google's technology is impressive, but they revolve around a business model that claims to which I have accumulated too much.
I am trying to disable - where possible. Chat our site will go to another service. Our accounts are moved to Google Apps to Rackspace e-mailWhich offers IMAP and sends notifications via Exchange. I deleted a bunch of accounts in Gmail that I have enjoyed for many years. Now I will not have to worry about the calendar, because last year I moved to iCloud. I left one Google Account For YouTube, but resigned from Google+. I think that many Google-fans will not miss me there. The final step was the transition from Chrome to Safari, which I did as an experiment.
However, a fundamental departure from Google, praised but useless without getting as good (if not better) alternative on practice. I still have not found a 100% way to replace all ideal. Fortunately, the initial setting after the elapsed time, I understood the Safari is good enough to use this browser every day.
Using Safari
When I wrote about in September using iOS 7I pointed out that all is not yet switched to Safari as the main browser. However, on the eve of the release of Mavericks, I gave a chance to the browser, and finally realized that not going back to Chrome. Combining privacy and automatic identification, gave me the idea that functionality of Chrome is more to me, kind of like, and do not need, and I enjoy the Safari features even more than I expected.
During the last two months of daily use Safari on all your devices, I gathered all my experience and made notes, what I like Safari, Chrome and what makes it better.
pros
Safari is fast and looks great. On iOS 7, Safari does not distract you from viewing the Web page, which is especially nice on the iPhone, thanks to the top toolbar. She hides when scrolling, allowing you to focus on what matters. But first of all, Safari faster than any other browser through Apple's Nitro engine and improvements that have been brought about in iOS 7. Safari faster than third-party browsers such as Chrome, ICABAnd faster than-reader apps like Reeder or Tweetbot. I did not think that the benefits of the speed in Safari will be so obvious, I have not yet begun to use it every day. Web pages load and open up instantly and come back for more Ping browsers no longer want.
Excellent menu implemented bookmarks. There are a few things that Apple allowed to do directly from the Bookmarks menu in Safari on iPhone and iPad. First - easier access to your favorites - just click on the address bar to open the address and icons your favorite sites tapnite on the icon to open a large site, and you will immediately find yourself in the web page.
Thanks to such easy access to your favorites, I stopped to leave favorite sites open tabs in your web pages. If I do not like the location of the tabs, I can click on the icon and while holding it, move to the desired location. It is much easier than moving them up and down the list. I have full use bookmarklets to speed the relationship between applications and iOS. Within the favorites icons look much nicer and there is no need to type the names in the tabs (as implemented in Chrome). On the iPad layout is similar, but there you can see all the icons because of the big screen.
Talking about the iPad, Safari has its own Favorites panel, which allows you to click on a bookmark or folder without having to go to the address bar or the Bookmarks button.
read a list of implemented very successfully. At first, I completely ignored the reading list, but since iOS 7 came out, I changed my attitude. This is due to the deep integration system that works with most modern iOS-applications.
Reading list, in fact, great solution for fixing the web pages you want to read later. It is not a web application, but simply saves to iCloud the articles that you would like to read. Reading list is not a social network, where you can subscribe to blogs or articles you're interested in. It's just a place where you store links.
That's the trick: reading the list of easy to use, you only need to send to the desired article. He works fine with Safari as a reader. I do not have to worry that I will miss some paragraph in the text, I just save everything, and later read the original web page offline, on any device.
Reader and General References
They also deserve a mention. Reader is useful for reading overloaded web pages. It is invoked by pressing the button next to the address bar in Safari. You get a "purified" of all superfluous text articles with pictures.
General references are a list of links that are sent to your Twitter. It seems completely unnecessary if you use a dedicated Twitter-client, for example, Tweetbot, and I still use it - though not every day, but fairly regularly to look at the links that make people and the messages which I I am watching.
I have a lot of work related to reading and information search in Safari, and the bad habit of constantly open Tweetbot every few minutes to "see what happened", it affects my productivity and creativity process.
General references offer a good compromise: you can view the links that currently appear in the Twitter (and not just the chatter of people without any references). You can open these links in Safari just by clicking on them and then read it, or can just delete them, or save it to read list. This is another simple addition to Safari, which frees me from flight to (and likely subsequent part of the diversion) to another application.
Keyboard shortcuts
Safari for the iPad comes with support for shortcuts when using an external keyboard, which We recently wrote. There are no keyboard shortcuts to switch between open tabs, but I use Ctrl + L and Ctrl + W as I use them on your Mac. Mac and iPad - two different devices and different platforms, but they become more like each other when you use the keyboard. I hope that in the future, Apple will add more hotkeys.
JavaScript and text selection
As I said above, I have some JavaScript bookmarklets that allow me to send the URL-address of the web page, or the names of other applications. So I save my time. I did everything for automation on OS X, and I've tried do it on iOS-devices, so that they work the same way as (it's better) My Mac. Unlike Chrome, Safari for the iPad can be used in JavaScript mode window.getSelection
To get the selected text to be active in your browser.
Using this support, you can automate the processing of workflows to pass by URL, headers in web pages and selected text from Safari into other applications - such as the creation of links or maintaining of source code and URL selection in Evernote. I'm so used to it that I, clearly lacks such support in Chrome.
Ease of private browsing
Access to private browsing in Safari is very easy: simply open the View tab (or click on the bookmarks bar in Safari), and you will gain entry to a private viewing. The button can also be used to quickly close all tabs, which compensates for the absence of the label "Close all tabs".
Mac: Energy-efficient chips and smooth scrolling
Safari 7 is fully compatible with chips Mavericks in energy-saving technologies and scrolling, which means, that the opening of a large number of tabs in the browser does not use as much RAM as it was earlier. Smooth Scrolling makes navigation smooth and responsive (smooth scrolling is not new for the Mavericks - it was before, thanks to WebKit). For comparison, Chrome in this plan works in a clumsy old man.
Mac: mashtabiruem one click
As I mentioned in his review Mavericks, Return to Safari on OS X reminded me of the two functions that I could not enjoy in Chrome: tapnut to give definition of the word (which had never worked in the browser by Google) and double tapnut to enlarge text in any part of web page. The increase is particularly valuable because the vision for me, unfortunately, is no longer what it was before, and pressing so smoothly enlarges text, as I could not wish for reading in its 16 years.
iCloud: perfect synchronization
To my surprise, I did not have any problems with synchronization in Safari on iOS 7 and Mavericks. Tab via iCloud sync confident in my iOS devices and Mac computers. Changes in bookmarks transferred in seconds, even on 3G; item in the list to read synced and downloaded for a few seconds after they were saved. In the past, many times I have criticized the timing Safari, and now I can say with full confidence: Synchronization now works for me.
Bunch of keys iCloud, of course, not 1Password, but it is quite a useful feature. I agree with Shaun: Functions 1Password unmatched when it comes to passwords and other security types, such as personal data, notes or credit cards. 1Password has a search, tags, security validation function, as well as many other things that make it an excellent password manager.
Bundle of keys iCloud extremely useful as an automatic form filling and login for synchronization. When last week I bought the iPad mini, it was impressed by how easy it was to enter on websites in Safari: after a single process authentication, keychain iCloud pulled out all my saved logins and credit card details, which I introduced on their other devices. And every time I opened the site with a saved login, required of me just go to your account. No need to type complex passwords on your mobile device, or switch between 1Password and Safari.
Here's how I do it on my Mac. I go to websites using 1Password and let a bunch of keys iCloud save my information. Then, on the iPhone and iPad, I'm getting a Mac automatically sync all your usernames, passwords and credit card data. 1Password also allows me to properly generate and manage their passwords (in conjunction iCloud keys even have a search field on the IOS), but the keys in Safari iCloud make it easier to access the site.
Minuses
There are some things in Safari could be done better - they make me remember Google Chrome.
No URL-scheme for the application callback
Apple has never implemented the x-callback-the URL Greg Pierce as did Google, and I do not have this feature. I do not have an automatic switch between applications when the links are opened through reverse calls automatically, closing a tab that they opened after I returned to the original attachment.
iCloud needs synchronization stories
iCloud syncs Safari and it is certainly good, but the history of the browser also needs to be synchronized. Too often, it turned out that I, typing the website address, I thought that Safari will display the full address of the story with my Mac. En-no, we must remember that history is not synchronized, and I would like to see her.
Search within a page too confusing
To access the Find in Safari on iOS, you have to click on the address bar, enter a query on the page, scroll down, select Find on this page. It seems to me that there is a much more simple way. It would be great if some of supported hotkeys for an external keyboard was a command Cmd + F.
Mac: no icon "save on exit", the attachment tabs and waiting status bar
Safari for Mac can use more colors and tabs. The Chrome, still looks better when displaying the status bar, the cursor hover over the URL and prevents accidental closing by long pressing Ctrl + Q. I am constantly reminded of these functions.
No function "Show full version of the site"
One of the best features of mobile Chrome is able to request the basic version of the site. While now it is not uncommon, and web designers develop a version that does not sacrifice functionality when optimizing a website for a smaller screen, there are exceptions. In this case, I prefer to get a classic, a desktop version of the site, and then manually increase the web page. As far as I know, there is no way to request that your full version of the website in Safari on the IOS, while in Chrome at any time to make a "Request desktop site". It's comfortable.
Voice search is better than Siri for the Web (and other things too)
There certainly: Google Voice Search does better than Apple. Google Voice Search Introduction to Chrome for IOS in the last yearA) faster displays the transcription of the text virtually in real time, and b) is ideal for web-search, which is taking place right in the browser. Compare of Siri voice search, which always needs to "think" that you asked, and who does not live feedback system, such as from Google. Siri even after two years after the launch is not as nimble on the search as Google search by voice (preferring built Wikipedia or Wolfram). Apple will go a long way yet to Siri surpassed Google's system when it comes to launching a web search.
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Safari is not perfect: it does not come up with the advanced users, as it is automatically done Chrome version for iOS, though he could have used a modernized user interface as OS X. On the other hand, Safari is faster and better integrated with third-party applications, firmware, a Reading List and support for "hot" keys on your iPad.
The lesson that I learned - never too late to reconsider your workflow and applications that you use, especially after Apple makes significant changes to the operating system. I wanted to make sure that everyone else uses best browser to meAnd while growing discomfort with the use of Google has helped me to make the first move. The feature set in Safari and user experience forced me to stay on this browser.
Safari is stable, fast and reliable. I went to the camp of Safari users.
As you mentioned reasons? If it were possible to reset the browser "by default", you would have switched to Chrome, or would have stayed on Safari? Be sure to share your opinions in the comments. Let's talk Safari!