I use Safari as my main browser (by choice) but wish they'd do a bit more about general snappy-ness and better support for sites that use video/microphone (like google meets)<p>It's sad that a lot of sites decide to only optimize for Chromium/Blink and have horrible performance on anything else, or hold back features altogether.<p>Orion browser was posted here just recently and looks very neat which feels a bit snappier, though still a bit rough on extensions and doesn't support Safari extensions.
In 2015/2016, I led a 4-member engineering team to overhaul an upcoming eCommerce website for a pretty well-known brand in India. I think this was when an Indian unicorn, Flipkart, was going around town advertising their excellent Progressive Web App features for browsers (Chrome/Android).<p>We stole many ideas from that and implemented them for the client, including the notorious connection persistence when the Internet was patchy.<p>One of the biggest hurdles was convincing the CEO (for revenue) and CTO of the calculated risk of alienating a tiny fraction of users on iOS (iPhones) and pre-IE10s (I think). They will lose about 2% of the revenue from those if we go ahead with the plan and push those people away. Remember, 2% of a large number is still a significant number when seen independently and impacts their P&L.<p>I promised them that the increase in revenue would make up for that north of their expectation. It did. In fact, to my surprise, their revenue doubled in about 3-5 months of the new deployment.<p>I saw the internal email sent by the CEO to the whole company; it was all praises, big numbers, and such. The lesson was to look closely at the data and take big calculated bets. Based on usage, quite a lot of things happening in the Safari world was pretty insignificant.<p>By 2018/19, for another product decision, we were hoping that Safari will catch-up but didn't really.<p>Personally, I use Safari on all devices and would hate websites pushing notifications!