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> They could do all this (except for the sandboxing thing).

The sandbox is very very important, it is the reason I mostly do not worry about clicking random links or pasting random urls in a browser.

There are many apps that I would have liked to try if not for the security risk.

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The download of a single EXE to keep had a nice side-effect though, that it made it trivial to store (most) apps (or their installers) for future use. Not so sure if in-browser apps can do that (yet?) except maybe by saving an entire virtual machine containing the web browser with the app installed.

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