Breaking Chromium's Grip: Safari MCP Offers a More Efficient Path for AI Browser Automation

The MCP browser automation ecosystem has a critical resource problem: all tools rely exclusively on Chromium, wasting CPU and memory even for simple tasks like reading dashboards or filling forms. Safari MCP demonstrates that native browser APIs and AppleScript can replace Chromium entirely, reducing idle CPU consumption from 38% to near zero. This shift signals a broader opportunity to rethink resource-heavy defaults in AI agent tooling.