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by TAForObvReasons 1627 days ago
The answer is actually in the original Scott McCloud comic http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ . A few highlights are on page 17 (about V8 JS engine) and 36-37 (about Chrome in general)

Chrome/Chromium and its stack was designed to be easy to reuse and build upon. This may have been an explicit design goal because of the difficulties with reusing parts of Firefox and other software.