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Are there any other popular browsers used on the Mac besides Safari? For Windows, there are significant numbers of users with FF and Chrome, but is this also true for Mac users? Or am I safe to say that Safari covers 95% of Mac users? I am asking so that I know what browser/platform combinations I need to test for my application.

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  • I think eventhough safari is very popular amongst Mac users , you could still use chrome,FF,opera for your testing purposes. – Priyank Patel Apr 17 '12 at 13:21
  • Duplicate of http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/22455/is-it-possible-to-get-browser-marketshare-by-os - which got migrated from StackOverflow last year... – amaidment Apr 17 '12 at 13:28
  • Here is the answer: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-popular-web-browser-among-Mac-OS-X-users-Are-there-any-usage-stats – niutech Jul 14 '16 at 12:38

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I'd definetely not assume that you shouldn't need to test for mac ff and chrome. This will not be a very large amount of work, since the mac chrome or ff does not seem to vary a lot with their respective Windows versions.

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We find that Chrome and Firefox are still fairly common on Macs but about 10-20% of Mac users depending on the site.

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  • Thank you. Do you have any experience with the performance of Chrome and FireFox on Macs? If you have tested FF and Chrome on a PC, is it safe to say that your app would also work on these browsers on a Mac? – Bjorn Apr 17 '12 at 13:23
  • It's rare to find any major differences, usually fonts are the only real issue we have – Steve Temple Apr 17 '12 at 13:25
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Firefox is available for Mac, as well as Opera. Google Chrome (Chromium) is there too. Here's a list of available browsers for Mac: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mac_OS_X_web_browsers

Keep other platforms in mind when testing as well. E.g. Konqueror is very popular on Linux.