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According to MG Siegler, Chrome is in the bizdev-required proprietary 'with Google' part of Android, not the Open Source part. http://parislemon.com/post/17215781807/chrome-for-android-th... That means we're stuck with legacy browsers in existing Androids and in the non-Google-blessed world (Amazon Fire and the billion Chinese phones and tablets).


Chromium for Android is going to be open source, and the only difference between desktop Chrome and Chromium is branding and nonfree codec support.


Interesting. The chromium blog post linked above mentions upstreaming a bunch of new components, so maybe it will be like the Chrome/Chromium situation? Here's hoping...

http://blog.chromium.org/2012/02/deeper-look-at-chrome-for-a...




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