[Kevin_Marks]

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).

[magicalist]

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...

[Sephr]

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