Browser recommendations for Mac

I suspect how well you get on depends on what kind of web sites you are visiting, but I don't think Safari is particularly better or worse than other choices.

The biggest difference in browsers is in the rendering engine they use which will be one of the following:

1. WebKit - used by Safari and DuckDuckGo
2. Chromium - used by Chrome, Edge, Brave and countless others
3. Gecko - used by Firefox.

All Chromium browsers are going to render things in much the same way. So unless they are messing with the web content to do ad blocking or AI stuff or whatever, then the main differences are in the surrounding UI. You will find bigger differences between engines - so Safari on WebKit might render something quite differently to Chrome or Edge.

I think it tends to work best for me to use Safari then one Chromium browser. If you find something doesn't work in one browser, try the other and you may have better luck. As major versions of MacOs gets released, I find one engine can suddenly become a lot worse than the other. I've had times when Safari has become pretty unusable, and similarly with Chrome. So having the flexibility to move from one to the other is sensible. You are not rewarded for being faithful on the Mac!

I tend to use Safari for most things, and Chrome for some specific tasks, but I'll swap over when need be. I also use Edge for its nice speaking voice if I want to read a long article.

Some people on here swear by Firefox. I've never got on with it on the Mac - mainly because it was insistently saying "clickable" after every single bit of text, whether clickable or not. I just started it up for the first time in ages and it wasn't doing that, so maybe worth a revisit at some point. I like it on Windows.

Personally if you are happy with Brave then I'd be inclined to stick with it as daily driver, but also maybe dabble with Safari on the side so you get used to both of them. Then it will feel natural to swap from one to the other if you choose to.

Sorry I don't use ad blockers so don't know about that.

Yes Safari can be a pain for that. Sometimes pressing Cmd+L to to the addres sbar and then Esc twice can get you into the content but sometimes it does either require a refresh or it just refuses to do it altogether. I think if you are browsing the web on the Mac you just need to be flexible and patient to have a good time.

Safari is great for most things on the Mac for me.
I use addblock, which is an add blocker as well as a VPN. It works very well with VoiceOver.

I use both Comet and Safari. Comet dconnects nicely with Perplexity AI, which I use for many purposes. So far, Comet has had none of the problems Safari seems to have. It is a chrome based browser, I think. However, it does have a variety of its own issues, and I haven't figured out how to resolve them. For example, it insists on using tabsd and is very obsessed with proper opening and closing and switching between them. I would much rather use windows instead of tabs, but where and how do I do that? On the other hand, its native AI is pretty good, but then so is the Safari native AI. Smile. That's ChatGpt for you, which is even better if you're willing to pay $20 a month for the Plus subscription.

I hope all that wasn't too confusing.

Best,

Boo Boo Cave Boy

Brave works flawlessly with VoiceOver. Now for the Poorly supported browsers by the mac, I do not know how browsers are poorly supported, I have Safari, Firefox, Chrome and Brave and they are just fine. Enjoy your new mac.