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Websites, by the very nature of living in a (more or less) content-neutral browser, are better behaved.

On-page search, copy-and-paste, and bookmarking deep in the content come for free.

The back button will behave predictably.

The browser engine has had a lot of bulletproofing on it; by comparison a lot of apps are unstable.

Updates are completely automatic- no "here's a 500mb update you won't get until weeks from now when you get to a Wifi hotspot."




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