the problem is, how can chrome+firefox persuade microsoft, apple, debian and redhat to add it? and how long will that take? maybe some of them don't want it at all.
with the current approach they can offer this improvement to their user right now.
I understand that, but what Im concerned about is Chrome or Firefox or etc skipping my OS settings and preferences. Like they already do in some cases.
This has echoes of MS SQL Server (and maybe others) where there's an argument to built a miniature operating system within RDBMS for technical reasons.
Given that whole UI and windowing toolkits are moving into the browser, that argument of replacing chunks of the OS, from top to bottom, starts to become more relevant (if not more comfortable).
And then the next step could be to have Google as a compulsory proxy for all web traffic, because of government blocks.
Isn't QUIC something an OS should provide?
Isn't the OS responsible for preventing antivirus software installing insecure browser plugins?
Isn't the OS responsible for process sandboxing?
Isn't the OS responsible for secure font rendering?
Isn't the OS responsible for shipping with decent optimized image and movie decoding libraries?
The innovation must be pushed somewhere. These days it's being pushed by the browser vendors and not OS vendors.