Safari in High Sierra also comes with built-in and enabled Cross Site Tracking Prevention feature. Safari will now automatically block those annoying auto-playing videos in websites. As we get to the final release and benchmarks come out, we’ll have a clearer picture. At what exact tasks? We don’t know yet but Apple made a big splash at the WWDC keynote, making sure to highlight just how much faster Safari was than Chrome. Faster SafariĪccording to Apple, Safari in High Sierra is 80% faster when it comes to JavaScript performance than Chrome. It has built-in encryption, crash-safe protection, and simpler backups thanks to the Snapshot feature.

APFS runs on a 64-bit architecture, is much faster and far more stable than the outgoing file system. High Sierra brings Apple’s APFS file system to the Mac ( iOS got it with 10.3 update). Still, there’s a lot of new exciting stuff and surely a lot of small changes and improvements! macOS High Sierra Features and Changes 1.