Here you go: Safari is a great browser for users.

The only thing that kept me away all of these years is the lack of extensions and because I’m used to Chrome’s developer tools.

Firefox is the worst browser in literally every way except for the containers. Everything else feels hacked on compared to other browsers. Just compare Firefox’ reader mode to Safari. It’s night and day. Firefox’ feels hacked on.

As a developer I hate Safari, but as a user it’s everything a browser should be. With Translations coming in Big Sur it doesn’t have much to envy Chrome.

That sounds more like the result of a filter bubble than reality. Safari is the default browser on a lot of Macs, but those users don't comment on HN about using it. It would also be useful if you described the properties of Safari that make it "IE" to you, since it's hard to discern what that means otherwise.

I use Safari as my general browser, mostly for following links from HN and reddit. The AdBlocking works well enough, and I don't really log into anything from Safari. I also use it for Twitch streaming since it's so much more stable. For those use cases, it is superior to both Chrome and Firefox.

I use Chrome for Google apps. Gmail, GCal, etc.

I use Firefox for work and isolation. So I use containers to keep all my AWS logins/consoles separate, I use it for Github, I use it for my own internal apps and dev (and all the dev tools). If for some reason I need to do Facebook or Insta I do it in FF, and it's isolated into its own container.

Firefox is also my default browser, so if I click a link in another app, it'll open in a container in Firefox.

Battery usage and smoothness of transitions on back button. In those areas Safari is unbeatable, for obvious reasons.

But yes, overall it is such an inferior browser, kept forcefully relevant by the iPhone alone.