I dont think Safari was always bad.
It was bearable when i bought my ipad. But every single update Safari was becoming worse. First, it implemented the full word selection (i think at start it just select a single letter and i had to manually select full word/text), then that selection was gradually worsening, never working as intended. Then my safari started to crash often, and now started to stop working, and becoming unable to use.
Im not pissed safari is bad. Im more pissed that it was okish and every update it was becoming more and more broken.
And i dont like google browser also, i wonder what else i have available.
Chrome, Firefox, Safari ... I heard some people put Opera in a pedestal ...
I know all current browsers became extremely bloated, memory hungry and inefficient. I blame HTML5 for it.
BUT DAMNIT I LOVED BEING ABLE TO PLAY PAC MAN ON Google Maps ! ;)