Apple’s Safari is not my major browser after macOS Sonoma had such a adverse affect on its efficiency, however I hope macOS 15 brings me again. To be trustworthy, the problems began virtually 4 years in the past with the macOS Huge Sur beta.

On the time, folks complained about Safari’s redesign, which I beloved. Nonetheless, the difficulty was the app would constantly show duplicated tabs even after a secure model was obtainable. As soon as I clicked on a tab, the duplicated one would turn into a clean web page.

Whereas this drawback was finally fastened, it took Apple far too lengthy to handle the Safari difficulty on macOS Huge Sur. As well as, it was with this working system replace that the pop-up warnings {that a} web page was draining my MacBook’s battery grew to become extra frequent.

This might have been solved if Apple was blocking all these adverts and trackers it promised to. Not solely was that not occurring, however the pop-ups made pages load extra slowly as properly.

Across the time that macOS Ventura rolled out, I switched from a 2019 16-inch MacBook Professional to the 2021 M1 Professional MacBook Professional, however even Apple’s silicon optimization wasn’t sufficient. Just a few Safari tabs opened, and every thing slowed down. With that, I made a decision to change to Microsoft Edge.

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In macOS Sonoma, I attempted utilizing Safari a number of instances to enhancing articles or browse the online, however I’d continually get a pop-up saying {that a} web page was consuming an excessive amount of reminiscence.

On the finish of the day, I used to be completely satisfied that even a 2023 Mac Studio with an M2 Max and 32GB of RAM couldn’t deal with Safari.

I don’t care about AI, however I hope macOS 15 makes Safari higher

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macOS 15 is predicted to characteristic some AI enhancements, however I really need a greater Safari, and reminiscence consumption isn’t the one difficulty. One other widespread grievance is that Safari can’t save passwords correctly, particularly when Apple suggests a robust password for a brand new credential. Even saving your bank card with Safari on macOS is a ache.

In the meantime, I’ve by no means had any points with Microsoft Edge. All the pieces works easily; it saves and remembers all my passwords. Nonetheless, since I’m reluctant to make use of Edge on iOS and iPadOS, I don’t have the seamless expertise I as soon as had.

If Apple can’t repair Safari, I feel I’d absolutely swap to Edge in iOS 18 and macOS 15. I can’t watch for WWDC 2024 to see if Apple has heard our issues.