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Trying Opera now, turned off after 5sec b/c it uses an 'installer' in OS X instead of drag&drop to apps.

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.

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.

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...

The installer is a strong indication of this behavior.

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