If that sounds a little Orwellian, Chrome on macOS probably isn’t for you. While you can tweak your Google settings to protect your privacy to some degree, you’ll never be completely safe with a company whose business model is built on obtaining your data. Safari uses the same buttons and symbols as the rest of macOS, which leads to a more seamless experience. Obviously, it’s less than ideal to force a user to learn an entirely separate workflow and user interface when they’re used to one already. Thankfully this is no longer the case, but it was a huge pain for far too long. Chrome used its own notification setup, that didn’t integrate with the Notification Center on a Mac. The old notification system was also a mess. But Chrome didn’t follow this feature until March 2019-half a year later. For example, macOS Mojave introduced Dark Mode in September 2018, which Safari supported out of the gate.

Similarly, most Mac apps have their own preferences window Chrome uses a website in a tab for that.Ĭhrome is also slower to catch up with new macOS features than Safari.

For example, most Mac apps close instantly when you hit Cmd + Q Chrome, by default, makes you hold the combo down for a few seconds before it quits (though you can turn that feature off by clicking Chrome in the menu bar and disabling Warn Before Quitting).

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