The macOS Tahoe beta is so bad that it made me switch to Chromium.
Urrghhh
Every damn year I do this. I see new beta, I install beta, beta sucks, I cry. Why do I keep doing it?
It looks pretty, though...
Yeah... So basically everything here is worse. I don't really care to have "discourse" about the new design, but it sure seems to make even basic things like Finder run slow somehow.
One issue is Safari is really slow. Embarrassingly slow. I've long been an advocate for not using Chromium, since Google is the devil or whatever. But the new Safari update makes using WebKit damn near unusable. It can take like, upwards of 30 seconds to open a new tab sometimes. Maybe my 8GB M1 Macbook Pro is showing its (rather young) age, but I don't think it's just me.
So I decided to make a tentative deal with the devil. I'm currently using... Thorium.
wtf is thorium??
Some chrome fork that a friend recommended to me. It claims to be 'The fastest browser on Earth.' Whatever. I just want a no-nonsense browser that won't freeze for damn seconds while I work. For that purpose, it has been very good.
Why not Firefox? Mainly because it's the only macOS browser that doesn't have by default WebGPU support somehow, and that's like what 80% of what I'm interested in right now.
The new Spotlight is pretty good, though. I've been having fun making shortcuts for it. It has the potential to replace Raycast fully (but Spotlight has been quite buggy with shortcuts as of now.)
As of writing, I have not installed macOS 26 Beta 2. Could fix everything! Who knows. Might update this post if anything interesting happens on this front. That's all I wanted to blog about, though. See ya!