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Add to SafariWhen comparing Safari vs Roccat browser, the Slant community recommends Safari for most people. In the question“What are the best macOS web browsers?” Safari is ranked 1st while Roccat browser is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Safari is:
The rendering of the pages and the browser compatibility with OSX works smoothly, when compared to other browsers. Also you get very high battery life with Safari, when compared to [Chrome](http://blog.getbatterybox.com/which-browser-is-the-most-energy-efficient-chrome-vs-safari-vs-firefox/).
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Pros
Pro Works elegantly in OSX
The rendering of the pages and the browser compatibility with OSX works smoothly, when compared to other browsers. Also you get very high battery life with Safari, when compared to Chrome.
Pro Extremely fast
Pro Sleek design
– No distraction stuff like favicons in tabs, all that borders, bevels and embosses in panels like in other browsers, no ugly shaped tabs.
– Neat adress bar.
– Good looking start “show all tabs” screen.
Pro iCloud syncing
Tabs, passwords, bookmarks and, history all sync across devices.
Pro Safari uses Webkit, a great open source web engine
Webkit is very light compared to Blink, renders web pages at an incredible speed, great CSS support and is also constantly evolving.
Pro Built-in URL shortener
It's their own one called lovebyt.es, does what a URL shortener should.
Pro FusedBar Aware
Really intelligent address bar. For example, type in how many calories in a banana and it will know - pretty cool!
Pro Ad-remover is already built in the engine
You do not necessarily need an extra plugin.
Pro Preview in tabs
VisiTabs shows you a preview of the site in the tab.
Pro Roccat Flick
Super easily share links with devices with Roccat on the same network (works really well).
Pro Full page screenshots
You can take screenshots of the whole page (not just the visible part) so no photoshopping multiple screenshots together anymore.
Pro Roccat Draw
Let's you draw on and annote the web.
Cons
Con OSX only
Apple dropped Windows support after Safari 5.
Con Does NOT block Ads
Doesn't block ads, unlike browsers like Brave and Vivaldi.
Con Poor support for new web technologies
Safari usually takes its time when it comes to adopting new and useful web technologies meaning that the user gets an inferior experience compared to other modern browsers.
Con Proprietary
While Safari er is currently available gratis (without monetary charge) on Mac OS X, it is currently not libre (meaning that it does not allow users to view the source code used to create, to modify that code, or to redistribute modifications) and is therefore neither free nor open-source software.
Con Outdated Rendering engine
All other browsers and toolkits (Qt/GTK) have shifted to Googles Blink-fork of KHTML/Webkit so Apple is currently the only main contributor left.
Con Terrible support for open source formats like .VP9 or .ogg
Apple does not support open source formats. Instead, they use H.264 and H.265.
Con Even on OSX not the best Experience
Video controls are bad esp. on youtube. Only few browser extensions.
Con Outdated safari fork
Even a safari developer (@apple) doesn't recommend rocket because it can be behind in updates.
Con Backed by runecats.com
Rune cats is known for installing all add ons, including visitabs and a adblocker. Rune cats was known to make this which was supposed to be a better browser than safari.
Con OS X only
Con Limited add on support
They've got everything you will personally need built in, but a lack of addons could be an issue for some people.
