[ensignavenger]

Chromium is Open Source, Google can t force Brave or MS or anyone else to do anything they don't want to. Google can make their life difficult, leading to a fork, but they can't force anything beyond that.

With all that said- I still prefer Firefox and think it is the best choice right now for the Web.

[SanchoPanda]

The difference in scale of effort and money/time of being downstream vs a fork makes it at least possible that they would do no such thing. I personally think it would be extremely unlikely they would fork it.