Browsers as Operating Systems
This cluster centers on debates about modern web browsers functioning as or evolving into operating systems, with discussions on their OS-like capabilities for running web apps, sandboxing, and whether they should replace traditional OSes.
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Why is it such a bad thing for a browser to act as an OS?
Browsers are becoming OS'es :).
but ironically. the browser should be integrated in the core of the OS.
What makes you think the browser as OS is silly?
A modern browser environment is an OS on its own. Change my view.
A browser nowadays is pretty much a whole OS.
you are implicitly arguing for browsers to become operating systems
The browser is effectively an OS - and it’s not very productive to cling to the notion that it isn’t one
The web app is the app. A browser is a mini OS at this point.
Making a browser do all the work of an OS or vice versa