If your Mac is brand new, you probably don’t have too many icons hanging out in the menu bar in the top-right corner of the screen. Vanilla: Clean Up Your Cluttered Menu Bar

They’re both free, and they also sync with other instances on Windows, Linux, or mobile devices. Chrome or Firefox are great choices, as they’re the most popular, and thus, have excellent support across the web. For that reason, we recommend you install a second browser, just in case. However, not every website plays nicely with Safari-some force you to use one of the “bigger” browsers. You get more battery life on a MacBook if you use Safari to browse. Apple puts a lot of work into optimizing the browser for reliability, performance, and power efficiency. Safari is the best browser for Macs thanks to its excellent power usage, integration with Apple technologies (like Apple Pay and iCloud Keychain), and its rapid rendering speed.

However, both are highly capable media players, and both are free.

We recommend MPV over VLC, as there are files VLC can’t play files that work fine in MPV.

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