Why I Still Test In Safari First (And The Bugs It Catches Early)

Yes, I Still Open Safari First

I build and test new frontend work in Safari first. On purpose. Repeatedly. Sober.

I know that sounds backwards. Everyone else ships for Chrome, patches for Firefox, then grudgingly opens Safari when QA files a bug with a YouTube link and zero details.

I used to work like that too. Then I got tired of having my nicest builds break on the client’s actual devices. Which were almost always iPhones and iPads running whatever Safari Apple felt like shipping that month.

So I flipped my workflow. Safari first, Chrome second, everything else after. It feels contrarian, but it has paid for itself in stress avoided and bugs caught before they became someone else’s problem.