Comment by fifticon

6 days ago

It is not just 'a lot of work'. It is on the level where microsoft gave up..

I mean, in the world where chromium exists, maintaining your own entirely independent codebase of a full web browser does not make business sense. It's better and easier to reuse what you can and build on top of that.

  • Yes, and it's open source. So Microsoft can fork it, if they think Google is pulling a fast one.