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by ppseafield 261 days ago
Chrome's engine was WebKit originally, which they then forked. Not an acquisition, but benefitted greatly from prior work.
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wslh 260 days ago
Indeed Chrome included many relatively small acquisitions to be built. For example, GreenBorder for sandboxing and Skia for the 2D graphics engine. At that time sandboxing was novel for a browser.
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