[pessimizer]

If nobody wants Chrome, and it's only profitable use is a social negative, let it die?

A billion or two dollars would fund development indefinitely. Don't sell it to anybody, make it a nonprofit with a fat trust. I'll say the same thing about Firefox: they got plenty of money from Google. They should have been able to save enough in ten or how ever many years to fund development for all eternity. Instead they paid it to themselves.

[Jensson]

> If nobody wants Chrome, and it's only profitable use is a social negative, let it die?

Its just going to get more user hostile, that is the point. Google has a reason not to sell that data, Chrome company does not.