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Firefox on Mac: How It Differs from Safari and Chrome

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A guide outlines how Firefox on macOS compares with Safari and Chrome. Safari offers tighter integration with iCloud Keychain, macOS proxy settings, Apple Watch unlock, and a more polished Reader Mode. Firefox matches Safari on Picture-in-Picture and dark mode, and it still supports Manifest V2 extensions, which permit fuller ad blocking than Chrome's shift to MV3. Firefox runs natively on Apple Silicon and can be installed from mozilla.org or Homebrew, with memory use generally lower than Chrome. The article also notes that switching browsers requires moving passwords out of Keychain or using a cross-platform password manager, and that Firefox containers and session management offer features Safari lacks.

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