I read the following inquiry on a Mac Forum I belong to, and the member asked the following question:

"Has anyone had any known security issues with Safari? I'm beginning to see more articles about Brave and Firefox and their better data protection. I like the features on Safari and I'd rather not give it up.

I've seen a handful of sites that don't like Safari because they simply haven't been designed to fully work with Safari. For those sites, I use Firefox. Please share your opinions and experience."

And another member answered as follows, and I thought it was interesting and that you might enjoy reading it as well.

Jim Hamm

"By far, the biggest security risk with any browser is social engineering, in which some web page persuades you to agree to something you should not. This is largely a function of what you know and are looking out for, and the choice of browser is likely a small detail in all this.

There are some sites that work with some browsers better than others, so I too use both Firefox and Safari for different sites, and I keep copies of Chrome and other browsers for occasional purposes.

But overall, I don’t think true security issues are much of a reason to prefer one browser over another, and that would change every time any browser gets a version update, so it may not make sense to focus on that as a question. Maybe a better habit is just to do upgrades more often. One issue is that because Safari is part of the Mac OS, it only usually gets updates when there is an OS update.

So, first, do all OS updates within a few days of when they come out. For Firefox and other browsers, reboot the browser periodically every few days even if you don’t need to reboot your Mac. Be prepared to switch and try different browsers on various web sites whenever things seem funky. Don’t expect hard and fast reliable rules to solve these sorts of things. Good luck."