Speed of Safari vs Chome

I find Safari faster. Maybe it's because of some Safari extensions you're using. Also try clearing caches.

Why would a site recommend a different browser? Because it might work better for the way their site is coded.

It has been my experience that Safari is faster just as MacJack has said.

With all of the data mining garbage that Google has loaded into Chrome, I find it very hard to believe that you are finding it faster.

I'm running 2010 iMac, not that much newer. We are both running 10.11.5. We both have the latest version of Safari. RAM isn't a factor.

ReidMac wrote:

I've always used Safari as my browser on my Mac and have been pretty happy with it. It lags a little but using an Ad Blocker helps to make most of the sites load reasonably fast. You can see from my product info that I am using an 8 year old computer with 4 mgs of RAM and actually I'm amazed that it works as well as it does. That being said, I was having a problem on the Ancestry.com website with information loading, and one of the troubleshooting steps, after emptying your cache, etc, was to try a different browser. I tried several of the suggested remedies with no luck so downloaded Google Chrome and the problem was fixed. I want to be loyal to Apple and Safari but I am amazed that Chrome is noticeably faster than Safari on all my bookmarked pages. Are there any steps I can take to speed up Safari? Why is it that Chrome is so much faster and, along with Firefox, one of the two recommended browsers for Mac users of Ancestry.com? Thanks

Safari is plenty fast, at least to me. I also don't have a ton of extensions (just Adblock, LastPass, Stylish, and YoutubeWide 10.0) or plugins bogging it down, though. I don't know why Ancestry.com wants visitors to be using either Firefox or Chrome; I don't think any of us here work for Ancestry.com, so we're not privy to those kinds of decisions. I use Safari with Ancestry all the time and have never had so much as a scintilla of an issue, but YMMV.

ReidMac wrote:

Safari seemed ok to me until I loaded Chrome. As another poster alludes to, maybe I'm on a hot date with Chrome but things will slow down in the future once Google adds all its garbage? Glad to see another Ancestry user on the support community. The problem I was having with Ancestry in Safari is that, under Profiles, I couldn't go the FACTS tab from any of the other tabs. All I would get was the process graphic as below.

Perhaps there is someone out there that could give me some tips on speeding up Safari. Thanks

My only suggestions would be to not install a ton of extensions and plugins, and with 4 GB of RAM, be more judicious with how you use it. Don't open a lot of tabs/windows, don't have a lot of other programs running. Maximize what you have to the best of your ability. Also, despite all that, Safari will only go as fast as your Internet speed allows. You can empty your caches, you can work with just the bare minimum, but if you have slow Internet, Safari will be slow. That's down to your ISP, not Apple.

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