Comment by kernal

5 days ago

The sale wouldn't involve Chromium nor the Google employees that work on Chromium or Chrome. But good luck to whoever buys it to keep funding it and acquire the talent to work on it at the speed Google does. Meanwhile, Chromium will go closed source as there's no incentive to keep it open and Google will develop a new closed sourced browser to reclaim its market share.

I would expect them to prevent Google from fielding a browser (any browser, not just Chrome) for some time (several years).