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Update OS X install instructions

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Closes #1656
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On OS X
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To install qutebrowser on OS X, you'll want a package manager, e.g.
http://brew.sh/[Homebrew] or https://www.macports.org/[MacPorts].
The easiest way to install qutebrowser on OS X is to use the prebuilt `.app`
files from the
https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/releases[release page].
Alternatively, you can install the dependencies via a package manager (like
http://brew.sh/[Homebrew] or https://www.macports.org/[MacPorts]) and run
qutebrowser from source.
For Homebrew, a few extra steps are necessary since Homebrew dropped QtWebKit
from Qt 5.6.
from Qt 5.6 - however, some users reported this didn't work for them, so using
the `.app` is strongly encouraged.
This installs a Qt 5.5 and symlinks it so PyQt5 will work with it instead of Qt
5.6. This requires that `qt5` is not installed via Homebrew: