It gives the Chromium project massive power over web standards. This happened with IE6 and was a bad time for the web.

It was a complete and totally different time for the web. I was waiting for folks to claim an open source project with outside contributors is the same as a proprietary company moving fast internally and shipping anything and evetything without following a standards process.

    > proprietary company moving fast internally and shipping anything and evetything without following a standards process.

Well, that's the thing. What's to stop Google from doing that?

It won't be as overt as Microsoft ramming shitty versions of IE down people's throats for a decade, but please rest assured that Google's goal is profit and domination. I'm not saying they are worse than any other for-profit corporation, but they are a for-profit corporation.

    > It was a complete and totally different time for the web

You lack a very basic sense of vision. You understand that the past is different from today, but seem unable to comprehend that the future might be different from today.

20 years ago: Microsoft was doing a pretty good job with the web! IE3/4/5 were consistently better than Netscape. Developers generally welcomed the IE monoculture because developing for both Netscape and IE was a real pain in the ass.

10 years ago: Microsoft had a stranglehold on the web and it suffered greatly, to the point where governments had to intervene (the EU mandating browser choice, etc)

Today: Google is doing a pretty good job with the web!

10 years from now: ????????????