![]() ![]() It provides reasonably friendly scripting-level access to otherwise low-level system APIs that would typically require wrangling with Swift, Objective-C, or an Objective-C language bridge. If you weren’t aware, Hammerspoon is a really neat, albeit a little quirky, way to quickly script macOS using Lua. The default browser is Safari or Brave, never both.When I click a web link from outside of a web browser, it is directed to the default browser.I want to use Brave Browser as a Chromium derivative for web apps, plus for its nice security and privacy features and its alternative to Google ads as a source of revenue for websites.I want to use Safari to read static webpages and manage my account logins. ![]() In consideration of all of the above, herein lies the usability problem with the concept of the “default browser”: Consult the links at the beginning of this article, or your own experience and observations using web apps on Safari and Firefox. Honestly, these days I just default to a Chromium browser for anything remotely “web app”. Firefox Sync is a very nice, privacy-friendly way to sync browser data ( “bookmarks, history, passwords, open tabs and installed add-ons”) to each and every platform it supports.Non-Apple device integration is a joke (if non-existence could be classified as such), but it’s certainly a nice option if you usually have an Apple device around (I use it since I usually have my Macbook around). Safari integrates with the macOS system “Keychain,” which allows you to store passwords in a secure local or iCloud database without purchasing a password manager subscription.The choice of browser here is mostly up to personal preference, but there are a few features that should still be mentioned: The vast majority of recent browsers should work just fine with services like banking, food ordering and light social media. But it is, as ever, a big champion of open standards it has lots of nice privacy-protecting features and it too has a reader mode. Firefox is a browser I use primarily under Linux, and therefore less often.Plus, its reader mode is a fantastic way to remove cruft and annoying CSS, helping the user to just focus on the content. ![]() Safari (on macOS) feels like Apple software in most of the right ways and is generally very battery-friendly.But browsers other than Chromium can provide unique experiences here, tailored to different content and for different people: ![]() To be honest, any web browser that’s even called a “web browser” should do this just fine. Let’s go through each item in the list of use cases: 1. I’m now going to try to make the case that non-Chromium browsers can have intrinsic value to the user, other than philosophically opposing a growing browser monopoly.
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