I Replaced Chrome with Safari for AI Browser Automation. Here's What Broke (and What Finally Worked)

Or: why every browser-automation MCP uses Chromium, and why that's the wrong default on macOS. The problem I kept hitting Every browser automation MCP server I tried on my Mac — chrome-devtools-mcp , playwright-mcp , browsermcp , puppeteer-mcp — did the same thing: spin up a fresh Chromium instance with nothing in it. No logins, no cookies, no session state. Then my AI agent would spend the first 5 minutes of every task navigating Cloudflare, solving reCAPTCHA, or explaining to me that it couldn