I prefer Safari except for logging into Chrome and haven't had issues. Does anyone use other Chromium browsers like Edge, or specifically Vivaldi?
Before you laugh, there's features I like in them (Azure Read Aloud voices in Edge and "Hide All UI" on Vivaldi).
I like "Play Me" by Fcukers because of its bouncy rhythm, the up and down stabbing synths in the chorus, and the cocky lyrics. In comparison, I feel like a lot of similarly categorized songs such as "Vroom Vroom" by Charlie XCX for instance don't have the same propulsive beat, and in comparison feel like they're constantly "braking," so to speak. For reference, the song "Von Dutch" by Charlie XCX is actually more on track and the closest song to this one. I played the "Song Radio" for "Play Me" but didn't find anything with the same vibe. I feel like I definitely need some human perspective and not an algorithmic one because so far the algorithms have failed to help me find songs that have similar magic to this one.
I run Safari on Apple Silicon, but when I was on Windows a long time ago I used Vivaldi because it was the only one that could do the visual customization I want. Like seriously. It's insane that Chrome and Edge don't let you hide all the junk at the top. Honestly, I did use Edge for a while ONLY because of its magnificent Azure "Read Aloud" voices. I navigate text enough that for a while it's worth it.
Now that I have good Apple voices again, I'm looking to Vivaldi. In Vivaldi, a lot of the widgets like some stuff in the panel and the in-built email seem like bloat that I wouldn't wanna use. I figure I can just turn a lot of that off, and I don't mind spending time on the setup to de-bloat and it would be nice to have genuine Chrome extensions back.
Now that I'm on Mac I like Safari because it's fast and lightweight. But I'm feeling the pull to Vivaldi.
I need some words of advice from real people, preferably those who actually made the switch from Safari (not bloated Chrome), and any real downsides or performance issues you had. I use my browser for high-stakes enterprise work. But as you can tell, I'm a tech noob as far as the software side of things.
I don't care about the generic big picture stuff. I want to hear your real stories and real, specific downsides or upsides. I don't have a problem staying with Safari if I'm not 100 percent sure about the switch.
In around 2015, I attended a high school talent show where one kid absolutely lit up the audience. He did a Shakespeare monologue, from what I gather it was Pyramus's death scene from the play within a play in a Midsummer NIght's Dream ("Thus, I die..."). He strutted back and forth on the stage, delivering lines in a rapid-fire, Tudor style pronunciation. From what I gather it was something like Original Pronunciation.
Here's the thing, since then, I have never been able to find a recording of that performance that is anything close that monologue. All the other Shakespeare monologues, particularly of that one, have been bland and in modern, "Received Pronunciation." I need help finding this performance, or if not, then something like it. There has to be someone else who has done the style, as I refuse to believe that only one person at that one talent show I attended is the only one who was able to capture the magic of Shakespeare so. I am not kidding when I say that I am severely let down by every performance of Shakespeare I have seen since. If that kid was "overdoing it," then I felt that every performance I have seen filmed or in person has been "undergoing it" and "under the top." Please help! Thanks!
Personal experience: I just installed the Crossover trial added CX Patch, and downloaded EA Sports PGA Golf (doesn't start) and Battlefront II. I moved the game files directly from the Steam folder in the regular Crossover bottle to the patched bottle and validated the files, and the game ran fine (but only after I set the width at 1920 and height 1080 in the start instructions).
Battlefront 2 is an EA game, but EA golf didn't work, which I've read about. Did anyone have. any luck starting it? It freezes when around 700 megabytes of the application are loaded into RAM. Wondering if there's a quick fix for this just like for Battlefront all I had to do was put the hight to 1080p. I know it's a long shot, but it would be great to play golf on the Mac!