It makes sense though. HTTP has been amazingly flexible, and we as a community have kind of done this to ourselves. Email and chat are already primarily done th

It makes sense though. HTTP has been amazingly flexible, and we as a community have kind of done this to ourselves. Email and chat are already primarily done through a browser now, assuming people even bother with that when they have the likes of facebook. Even games are beginning to migrate there. Things like Chromebooks not only exist, but are wildly popular- and they're basically just web browsers in a box. When everything is moving towards one standard (for better or worse) it makes sense to put your eggs in that basket. Especially when that standard is also your bread & butter as is the case with Mozilla. The people that this will appeal to will like this just fine I bet. That all said, I don't like it much either. But I don't know if that's just resistance to change or actual technical reasons.