Are there browsers that care more about privacy of its users? Undoubtedly! Does the average person care about these things? Unfortunately not enough. Are there browsers that use less resources? Sure. Chrome, and its open source cousin Chromium, offer a wide selection of plugins that make development easier, on top of built-in features like having your browser mimic a different device (eg a smarphone viewport). Either way, both Chrome and Safari share some DNA in the form of the webkit engine, and behave similarly for the most part. It's platform specific, and I suspect a large portion of its market share stems from mobile use (although same could be said for Chrome). Safari is hovering at around 19%, has the second largest market share. Chrome is, by far and away, the browser with the highest global market share (63.5%). No matter how you feel about google, google chrome, or the direction the project is taking, IMO the best browser to use is the browser people most likely are to view your content on. Just like you want your staging/test environment to resemble production as closely as possible, I'd argue you want to see what you're working on on the browser that is most likely going to be the one clients/end-users use to view the content. You can use some alternative browser nobody has ever heard of on the basis that its tooling fits your development flow perfectly, but that counts for very little if the end result looks like hot garbage on the machines your end users will be looking at the finished product. Elias Van Ootegem's Experience Seeing as the question is not "what is the best browser for developers", but rather "what is the best browser for web development", the answer has to be, at least in part, informed by the platform/audience you target.
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