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Apple pushing Mac OS X Yosemite users to use Safari

Apple pushing Mac OS X Yosemite users to use Safari
Jonathan Riggall

Jonathan Riggall

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According to many people on Twitter, if you try to use a third party browser in Mac OS X Yosemite, you will get a notification message asking you to try Apple’s own Safari.

“Fast, energy efficient, and with a beautiful new design” is what you’ll read when opening a browser like Firefox or Chrome for the first time after installing OS X Yosemite. You will get another message if Safari isn’t your default browser. It’s common for browsers to ask to be your default when you first use them, but it’s new for an operating system to suggest you change your default browser.

Apple claims the new Safari included with Yosemite is much faster than both old versions, as well as faster than Firefox and Chrome. It beats both in some benchmark tests, but not in all of them. Unsurprisingly, companies tend to choose the tests which make their browsers look best, but as they are all free, you can try them out for yourself to see which you prefer. Only now, OS X Yosemite will ask you if you’d like to use Safari instead.

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Source: Mac Rumors

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