I have done everything, I believe, that Google recommended and if the sites I went to had not had pictures, I'd have just done away with either Fox or Safari.

I don't speak computer and am lost when someone suggests putting something in a "file."

Here's my plan and the built in question. I "think" I can delete Safari and then dowload another system, likc Chrome. Can I just delet Safari or do I have to uninstall it?

Next question. Is Chrome good? I went to he app store and they want 5 or 6 bucks for the Chrome Browser. Is that normal, to buy a browser and is that what I want?

Fall back plan is to do nothing, don't use Fox site and wait and see if the next update fixes it.

Bob

Chrome is free. I have both. If a website will not load, it may be a different issue i.e. the host server of the webpage. No need to uninstall Safari. You can make Chrome your default browser.

Thanks, I just found where to download Chrome.

I'm gonna do it, after all, what can go wrong?

Some sites for whatever reason don't play nice with Safari. Academy Sports always gives me the run around, can never see the pictures, unless they have fixed it recently.

There is really no need to delete or uninstall Safari. Just Download Chrome, and when done you can make either one your "default" browser, and you can always switch back and forth between the two if you so desire.

Both will still open when you click on their icon, and the one not set to default will give you a message that it is not your default browser, and ask if you want to make it your default browser.

Chrome is free, direct from Google, if you are being asked questions and for money, it's not Google, it's someone piggy backing off their app

https://www.google.com/chrome/

You can leave safari on there if you wish. You can continue using it for your other browsing since you are already comfortable with it. Occasionally a website just doesn't cooperate with one browser in particular. When that happens you can try to open the website with the other browser (Chrome).

That's what I did-got Chrome on for Fox and will try to learn how to use it-it's different than anything I used before.

If Safari comes back again, then I'll just keep Chrome for emergencies, if not, I'll use it.

Simple (which it has to be for me to understand it).

Thank you all.

Bob

Bob,

May be a different user interface, but Chrome has become the current standard. I would recommend taking your time and getting used to it.

Apple seems to have devoted their time to portable hardware based on IOS.

BTW, Where in TB are you. Not sure if we have met at a local shoot or not. Im in South Tampa. Lets get together for a drink

Over in Pinellas.

Didn't we meet at a Sig Forum lunch maybe five or so years ago on Columbus in Tampa IIRC?

Bob

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Being a Google product, I'd be concerned that Google would be tracking and harvesting your data FAR more than Safari. Also, Chrome always used to be known as a resource hog. I had it a few years ago and dumped it.

I've been using Brave browser which blocks trackers, ads, etc. It uses Chrome extensions.

 
I have found over the past year or two that some sites are being designed with features that just don't work in Safari. For those, I keep Firefox on hand. In my bookmarks, I put [FX] after the bookmark to indicate it needs to be opened in Firefox. I prefer to use Safari, however.

It's not clear what type of machine the OP is using. Assuming it has plenty of space available, there's no gain in deleting Safari.

Poorly written/tested websites will fail on one browser or another, and there's really almost no way to predict. So keeping more than one around is a good idea.

If you assume some web programmers know their stuff, what testing they do would at least cover some of the most popular browsers. So it's rational to have one of those working on your machine, if not as primary, then as the one you fire up when a site breaks on your regular browser.

I have three or four set up on most of my machines, in various stealth/privacy/cookie settings. Daily browser is Chrome, locked down to the extent it can be. If sites don't work with that, I go up the chain to browsers I have locked down less restrictively...Firefox->Opera->MS Edge until one works. Then, I clean those browsers' cookies and saved data off my machine using CCleaner.

My machine is a Mac Desktop, late 2015 Model.

I'm doing what a number of you suggested (I think, anyway).

I downloaded Chrome and set it up so I can use it (though it seems more complicated and less intuitive than Safari).

I kept Safari as it is easy to use and I am hoping that the next Apple "fix" will fix my problem. In the meantime I am learning Chrome.

I thank all of you for you suggestions and, as many others have said before me, I am impressed with the knowledge of the members here.

Bob