What is the FASTEST Internet Browser for OSX? (2014 Edition)

The fastest I have used is Opera.

Don't like it much though, so I use Safari. I have zero time for Google.

I have both Safari and Google Chrome. I find Chrome faster loading Web pages and other tasks. However certain sites may require the use of Safari or even firefox to load certain items.

Yes, my friends above are all correct. Safari is said to be the fastest and in reality the most stable. The problem is with Google you get other programs creeping in that you really don't want. Safari is Number 1.

While you're at it, buy a Crucial SSD for your MacBookPro if you want speed. Mine opens in just 15 seconds from switch on. Beat that!

http://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/ssd

Chrome, as with any other app from Google, are known and proven to be poorly written. Memory leaks in particular. It's fast, but it's not very good.

Don't put a few milliseconds ahead of stability and good programming. Use Safari or Firefox.

What programs "creeping in"? I cannot find any. Also not sure what "memory leaks" are but I have plenty of memory left and no issues at all using Chrome. I also like the bookmarks bar with icons which I find easier to read than Safari but I guess each person should use the browser they feel comfortable with .

When I use Chrome, I'm frequently presented with pages that ask for the install of a plugin. Plus, my few uses for Java can't be used with Chrome because the current version of Chrome is still 32 bit.

Plus, I prefer the way Safari handles bookmarks.

In this case, a "memory leak" would be the difference between the amount of RAM used by Chrome when it starts and what is returned by Chrome when it quits.

Are you using the old 32bit version or the new 64bit beta?

Personally I am comfortable with Safari and its features. OSX Safari is part of the operating system and is much more stable than Chrome in my opinion and experience. I dumped Chrome and use Aurora(Firefox), Safari or the plain "its a Browser" apphttp://itsabrowser.com/manual/index.html

32 bit

Ancient code,

The first non beta release of the 64bit version (39) should be soon.

Keeping in mind that the first beta was only released on 28 August 2014.

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/08/28/google-launches-64-bit-chrome-beta/

The Beta is available here: https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/beta.html

Has anyone used or have any opinions about Lightning? I found some positive reviews around, and granted they all mention it's unrefined, they all seem to think it is the fastest. Great as that may be, before I fork out the $2 😐 I would like to get some more info regarding privacy and security.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lightning-web-browser/id412736557?mt=12

A review

http://mac360.com/2014/04/lightning-strikes-is-this-the-fastest-mac-web-browser- money-can-buy/

This is an interesting read:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-unmissable-reasons-opera-is-the-right-browser-for -your-mac/

and once, on MacBook Air, I was checking my resources and saw that Chrome ate up a big chunk of disk storage space. Maybe in this day and age, one can say who cares with all this big storage we got plus you likely need a lot of cached data in storage for "fast" operation. But looking from the old school thought of limited memory and storage, it's not "efficient" and lightweight by old school standards. Here's a screenshot of what Chrome disk usage looked like on my Mac. I recall it doesn't look this way on Windows.

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10628485_10152640197781451_6 989464682795644070_n.jpg?oh=78a3cd2d1bb0…

not advocating anything, just pointing out that Chrome (and FF) may not be all that fast or efficient on Mac.

You have something wrong. My browsers use the following:

Safari=44MB

Fire Fox=178MB

Chrome=380MB