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[briansmith]

In many ways, Google Chrome is the ultimate fork of Firefox. It took almost all the good ideas of Firefox and dumped the bad code. If somebody was going to come up with a "new" brower, a de-Googled Chrome would make a much nicer base.

[stuaxo → briansmith]

Thats not a fork, it doesn't use any firefox code, it's based on webkit.

At best you could say that it's a fork of khtml.