[cmurf]

From Wikipedia: Chrome OS is an operating system designed by Google that is based on the Linux kernel and uses the Google Chrome web browser as its principal user interface.

OK so why not Google Chrome web browser on top of Fuchsia, instead of Linux kernel and the usual user space stuff? Google can call that retrofit anything they want, so it could still be Chrome OS.

[sseth]

I have been following Chrome development, and one of the things being done there is "servicification" of the blink engine - i.e. breaking it up into services accessed using Mojo. Fuchsia is also built with Mojo as the IPC mechanism. So reading the tea leaves, it seems to me that a "servicified" Chrome will be fully integrated into Fuchsia.

Besides this of course, Fuchsia shared many other components with chrome (the use of Skia for example). If we look at the direction for Flutter, Fuchsia and Chrome, it is clear that this is not some casual side-show but a very well thought out strategy.

[on_and_off]

Not an expert on ChromeOS but it has more than simply Chrome right now, for example it can run Android apps.

It is although true that Google could replace the low layers of Chrome OS as long as it replicates most of the user facing features.

If Google intends to make Fuchsia some kind of Android successor (we have no way to know if that's the plan though), this feature is utterly needed anyway : an Android VM for 'legacy' apps and Flutter for the future.

[sebe]

Fuchsia can display web content, it has a web view that currently webkit based not chrome/blink. I think the plan is to use chrome/chromium web browser, once/if arrives in fuchsia,that will be interesting.

[fabrice_d]

There is actually a fuchsia port in the upstream chromium tree.