I have been giving it a fair shot the past few days. It does some things I really like. I like the UI, after some initial learning curve I really like the way it handles tabs and spaces. The PIP for music/videos is really nice. Dragging a tab into my current window for a split view has actually been a really nice experience. As somebody who uses Notes an embarassing amount, Easels have actually been a good middleground between that and something like Evernote.

It has the biggest learning curve for a browser I have ever used, which does make me consider for how much widespread appeal it will have. I haven’t even touched a lot of their features I think.

However my biggest concern, coming from Safari, it seems like a huge resource hog. I am using it on my desktop so it’s…okay, but I have never got the fans on my iMac going from a browser before. I couldn’t imagine the battery impact on a notebook.

To be fair, they are aware of the resource usage and are apparently working on that in upcoming releases, but we will see. I am not confident they can get a Chromium based browser to be much more optimized. If they can get that down a bit, I might consider using it more longterm.