When comparing Safari vs Searx, the Slant community recommends Safari for most people. In the question“What are the best internet search engines?” Safari is ranked 1st while Searx is ranked 4th. 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/).
Specs
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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 Extremely customisable
Since you have access to all the .yaml files, you can easily modify it to your needs.
Pro Can add many search engines
Have a vast choice for choosing search engines
Pro Can use a proxy
Using a proxy called Morty hides the IP address of the user
Pro Most Private Search engine
Since it can be hosted on your own server/ computer, it is very private, nothing leaves your computer.
No cookies or ads too
Pro Very fast
Since it is a Python program with a web interface, it's very very fast even on a poor internet connection
Pro Supports instant answers
Uses Google and Bing, and hence has the 'quick answers' feature of both the search engines.
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 Not very mobile friendly
Needs WSL2 for windows, and works natively on macOS and Linux
But no support for Android or iOS