Yes, it was a little sarcastic and under an article about Internet Explorer, which isn't exactly the number one public enemy anymore either. A few thoughts: At

Yes, it was a little sarcastic and under an article about Internet Explorer, which isn't exactly the number one public enemy anymore either. A few thoughts: At some point, the ideas of a browser, and an OS, seemed to converge a lot - expose more of the machine to the browser (webapps), provide task and memory management for the sites and webapps... More and more functionality overlapped. From that point of view, maybe the argument to see them as connected made a lot of sense - the deeper the integration, the less double work might be happening, maybe. The cost, however, is always portability, or at least interoperability. But as much as "having common code everywhere is good", I think switching all browsers to Chromium is not the way to go either.