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Re:What will a Chromium-only Web look like? by jorvi on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @09:39AM (#31835855)
You are under the mistaken assumption that Google maintains absolute power over the Chromium codebase.

It is very permissively licensed, and Microsoft’s Edge is so successful and Microsoft is contributing a ton upstream. In a few years time they will have de-facto equal say over where the codebase goes. If Google disagrees too much, we will in fact see a fork.

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Re:What will a Chromium-only Web look like? by jacobolus on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @09:47AM (#31835917)
Edge and Firefox are each under 5% of web browsing (among desktop browsers, each under 10%), vs. Google with well over 50%.

Furthermore, from what I can tell, Edge users are predominantly former IE users (rather than coming from other browsers), and combined IE + Edge use is still declining over time.

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