Safari has been my daily driver for a decade. Clean, integrated well into MacOS. Just works. I only have to crack out Chrome for the odd awkward website that’s usually terrible in all sorts if other ways, apart from poor testing. Like a bad bank.
I enjoy Google products, but I am also careful to tune my Google privacy, etc. settings. Keeping the use of all Google properties on Chrome keeps things clear, for an old man like myself. BTW, I seldom use Google search, but everything else except for GMail I pay for: GCP, YouTube Plus, Gemini (love the large context size, and almost free API use), etc.
Off topic, but almost everything of value I use on the web is something I pay for. Adding in buying books to read, user experience is better than reading or using random junk on the web.
https://caniuse.com/?compare=chrome+134,safari+18.2,firefox+...
P.S. Surprised how far back Firefox had fallen, actually.
The vast majority of these are APIs that I explicitly do not want websites to use. Especially things like "touch events", which would serve to allow websites to implement their own dumbass broken scroll implementations (again, this is very intentionally not supported.) It would seem Apple is very intentional in choosing not to support most of these.
There is only one reason these APIs exist at all, and it is that Google has decided to make their browser into an OS (chromeOS) and so they need to invent a web API for everything a normal OS may need to do, so that "everything is a webapp" can be a sorta half-true thing. They exist because Google crammed them through standards committees that they have essentially a majority vote on.
But the fact that a browser decides not to be an entire OS just because google’s doing it, I don’t think that means they’re the “new IE”. It means it’s a browser and not an entire operating system, and I’m ok with that.