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EDIT: Thank you all for detailing your experience with, and hatred for, this miserable product. Your display of solidarity is inspiring. Now, say it with me:

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Really? Why? Anything they might share would be shared with any codebase for a window application right?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Browsers, at the core are just file browsers. Websites are just files on another computer.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Every application is a file browser when you open/save, what's your point?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

That a lot of the lower level components are already there. Id imagine it's easier to recycle working code than redo from scratch.