Safari vs. Chrome: The best browser for Apple users in 2025

[wslh]

https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/chrome-vs-safari-best-browser-for-iphone-and-mac/

[ekusiadadus]

Safari is the best browser on Mac for sure. But when it comes to with browser extension, it's awful. You could not find useful extensions.

[dabinat]

One thing not mentioned here is that Safari only supports AV1 video playback on devices with hardware decoding support (M3 and higher). So it will not play back AV1 videos at all on < M3 systems, even though those systems could probably easily play them back in software.

So Safari is the reason AV1 does not have universal support across modern browsers.

[p_ing]

Not that Chrome is great, but those “technical” tests leave a lot to be desired. And I love the performance measurement of Safari on iOS vs Safari UIWebView… That iOS performance for Chrome is entirely due to Apple’s restrictions.

[apothegm]

Neither. At least on desktop, the answer is Firefox.