This week is the WebKit Contributor’s meeting — with the browser engineers who contribute to WebKit. Including from Apple, Igalia, Sony, Redhat & more.
Did you know that WebKit is not just the browser engine for Safari — but for many other browsers, apps, and platforms as well? Igalia @igalia maintains two of them: WebKitGTK @WebKitGTK and WPE @WPEWebKit
WebKit is especially great for devices that don’t have a lot of power. It’s used for digital signs, medical devices, game consoles and more!
@jni Just the ones I use every single day:
- uBlock Origin
- XKit Rewritten
- Indie Wiki Buddy
- Shinigami Eyes
- PronounDB
And that’s not even mentioning the ones I only use a few times per week :/
@jni @jensimmons @igalia @WebKitGTK @WPEWebKit
Not to start a thing but Safari also has AI features
I’ve spent 36 hours over the last 3 days to see how much more battery Chrome uses than Safari on the Mac. Is it true? Is an outdated fact? More people should do more testing, but my findings are not what I expected. https://birchtree.me/blog/everyone-says-chrome-devastates-mac-battery-life-but-does-it-i-tested-for-36-hours-to-find-out/
@matt @manu @jni @jensimmons @igalia @WebKitGTK @WPEWebKit AFAIK, Apple's Safari - unlike Firefox - avoids using dedicaded hardware accelerators unless that's deemed more energy-efficient for the platform it runs on.
#Apple #iOS #macOS #Safari #SafariBrowser #Optimization #BatteryRuntime #Battery
@matt @manu @kkarhan @jensimmons @igalia @WebKitGTK @WPEWebKit
I’d be interested to see FF results! Indeed FF could probably also catch up if they had their priorities straight. 🙃
Definitely no placebo here though — I wasn’t looking for it, I’d just gotten used to checking my battery levels often.
Lots of factors too — I typically have 100+ tabs 😅 and rarely watch video — so eg YT WebM on Chrome vs mp4 on Safari would make no difference for me.
@jni @matt @manu @jensimmons @igalia @WebKitGTK @WPEWebKit yeah, @mozilla need to get thdir shit together or yeet Firefox to @torproject and make Tor Browser the Upstream...
@jni @jensimmons @igalia @WebKitGTK @WPEWebKit
Hmmm. I am happy to know about your results in contrast to FF. Apparently Google Chrome also did a huge progress on energy consumption. Not so much of a battery killer anymore and in some benchmarks Chrome performed even better than Safari.
PS. I am not here to defend Chrome. Safari is also my daily driver. I just wish that Apple fixed bookmarks sync one day 🙏
https://pawelgrzybek.com/apple-please-fix-the-safari-reading-list/
Long time Birchtree readers know I love data, and love data even more when I can throw it into a graph. I’m also a fan of testing things that everyone generally agrees are true, but no one seems to have any data to back up. That brings us to
@pawelgrzybek @jensimmons @igalia @WebKitGTK @WPEWebKit indeed and to be perfectly clear — fuck Chrome. 😂
Sorry to hear about your reading list experience. I was a long-time user of Pocket before Apple added Reading List so this does not affect me. Fully on board with the defaults issue. (Currently considering a move to @wallabag but the inertia is very powerful 😂)
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