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by ivanjermakov 559 days ago
> is that it's comnpletely unstyled

Another reason might be that vendor making it look like a native browser window would blur the line of death[1]. It would make it easier for malicious website to make a popup "browser update" in the middle of the page that redirects to seemingly legit Chrome download page and downloads modified executable.

[1]: https://textslashplain.com/2017/01/14/the-line-of-death/