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With Chrome, you also get Chromium, and the ability to see inside(and contribute!) to development. This did not exist in the IE-dominated era.

Link to chromium dev: https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

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Out of curiosity, how much flows from Chromium to Chrome, compared to vice-versa?

Chrome is basically a distribution of Chromium; there are some extra bits added like DRM, but otherwise it's built straight from the Chromium tree. It's not like Android, where there's a private repo that occasionally gets thrown over the wall in the form of AOSP.

I'm not going to give any assistance at all to Google, and I'd caution others to think carefully before doing so.

> I'm not going to give any assistance at all to Google

Neither am I, but I wanted to point it out anyway. If things like chromium-dev had existed back then, maybe we wouldn't have had the IE fiasco we all remember. Or maybe we would have anyway, who can tell :)

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