diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 08c5ba5..1e3574c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
     "ncp": "^2.0.0",
     "page-icon": "^0.3.0",
     "progress": "^2.0.0",
-    "request": "^2.67.0",
     "sanitize-filename": "^1.5.3",
     "shelljs": "^0.7.0",
     "source-map-support": "^0.4.0",
diff --git a/src/infer/inferTitle.js b/src/infer/inferTitle.js
index 9db73da..a23056a 100644
--- a/src/infer/inferTitle.js
+++ b/src/infer/inferTitle.js
@@ -1,24 +1,21 @@
-import request from 'request';
+import axios from 'axios';
 import cheerio from 'cheerio';
 
-function inferTitle(url, callback) {
+const USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2227.1 Safari/537.36';
+
+function inferTitle(url) {
     const options = {
-        url: url,
+        method: 'get',
+        url,
         headers: {
             // fake a user agent because pages like http://messenger.com will throw 404 error
-            'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2227.1 Safari/537.36'
+            'User-Agent': USER_AGENT
         }
     };
 
-    request(options, (error, response, body) => {
-        if (error || response.statusCode !== 200) {
-            callback(`Request Error: ${error}, Status Code ${response ? response.statusCode : 'No Response'}`);
-            return;
-        }
-
-        const $ = cheerio.load(body);
-        const pageTitle = $('title').first().text().replace(/\//g, '');
-        callback(null, pageTitle);
+    return axios(options).then(({data}) => {
+        const $ = cheerio.load(data);
+        return $('title').first().text().replace(/\//g, '');
     });
 }
 
diff --git a/src/options/optionsMain.js b/src/options/optionsMain.js
index f3b28b7..4d16793 100644
--- a/src/options/optionsMain.js
+++ b/src/options/optionsMain.js
@@ -136,18 +136,13 @@ function optionsFactory(inpOptions, callback) {
                 callback();
                 return;
             }
+            options.name = DEFAULT_APP_NAME;
 
-            inferTitle(options.targetUrl, function(error, pageTitle) {
-                if (error) {
-                    log.warn(`Unable to automatically determine app name, falling back to '${DEFAULT_APP_NAME}'`);
-                    options.name = DEFAULT_APP_NAME;
-                } else {
-                    options.name = pageTitle.trim();
-                }
-                if (options.platform === 'linux') {
-                    // spaces will cause problems with Ubuntu when pinned to the dock
-                    options.name = _.kebabCase(options.name);
-                }
+            inferTitle(options.targetUrl).then(pageTitle => {
+                options.name = pageTitle;
+            }).catch(error => {
+                log.warn(`Unable to automatically determine app name, falling back to '${DEFAULT_APP_NAME}'. Reason: ${error}`);
+            }).then(() => {
                 callback();
             });
         }
@@ -156,14 +151,21 @@ function optionsFactory(inpOptions, callback) {
     });
 }
 
-function sanitizeFilename(str) {
-    const cleaned = sanitizeFilenameLib(str);
+function sanitizeFilename(platform, str) {
+    let result = sanitizeFilenameLib(str);
+
     // remove all non ascii or use default app name
-    return cleaned.replace(/[^\x00-\x7F]/g, '') || DEFAULT_APP_NAME;
+    result = result.replace(/[^\x00-\x7F]/g, '') || DEFAULT_APP_NAME;
+
+    // spaces will cause problems with Ubuntu when pinned to the dock
+    if (platform === 'linux') {
+        return _.kebabCase(result);
+    }
+    return result;
 }
 
 function sanitizeOptions(options) {
-    options.name = sanitizeFilename(options.name);
+    options.name = sanitizeFilename(options.platform, options.name);
     return options;
 }