> Modern browsers are platforms for modern apps I'm completely fine with this (although I don't like JS webapps myself, if they're anything more than a thin cl

> Modern browsers are platforms for modern apps I'm completely fine with this (although I don't like JS webapps myself, if they're anything more than a thin client), just that I don't want my platform to come with unremovable third party stuff. Further more, while being a "platform for apps", browsers are still content viewers where sometimes content happens to be an interactive application software. > But I don't believe that many use Chromium instead of Chrome. I said many as in "a multitude of people", not to mean "most". My version of Chromium has a PDF viewer, and I didn't install it (Chromium 52.0.2743.116, from FreeBSD pkg).