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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by hadrien01 on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:42AM (#10071881)
Why not Opera? The new Opera is Chromium with what I think is a better design[1] that respects your OS[2]. You don't have to sign in to sync, but you can if you want. It's not open, but they're not an ad company. And finally, it's said to be faster than Chrome.

[1] I prefer Firefox so I use the FxOpera theme

[2] Well, it tries its best on Linux (unlike Chrome), but it's near perfect on Windows and Mac OS

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by sup on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:58AM (#10071929)
>but they're not an ad company

I got bad news for you

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by hadrien01 on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:05AM (#10071945)
TIL: http://operamediaworks.com/

But still, I don't think they track searches and history like Chrome.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by V-2 on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:55AM (#10071922)
Personally I don't use Opera because it doesn't let you customize mouse gestures. They consider it too geeky a feature :) http://i.imgur.com/fDSjYZq.png
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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by OnleMeMeMe on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:00AM (#10071936)
Trying Opera now, turned off after 5sec b/c it uses an 'installer' in OS X instead of drag&drop to apps.
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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by hadrien01 on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:10AM (#10071962)
Weird, I have an iWork DVD with an installer. Should I just throw it up after discovering it doesn't use drag&drop, without even trying the app?

Many programs do that, even Apple ones: iLife, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by OnleMeMeMe on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:18AM (#10071981)
Yes, because it manipulates the system in some way beyond copying the app to app, it's often hard to deinstall without traces, hard to keep two versions side by side etc.

So if the pain of the installer is larger than the added benefit of using Opera vs. Chrome, then yes.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by 1stop on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:36AM (#10072040)
Really? An app can still freely write to ~/Library and cause all the problems you just said. The installer is the wrong thing to object to...
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Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? by OnleMeMeMe on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:43AM (#10072066)
The installer is a strong indication of this behavior.
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