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by Scorponok 4406 days ago
Some details here:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/16/google-has-already-removed-...

As I understand it, Google and Apple did things like sandboxing in different ways for Chrome and Safari, and so there was a lot of code in both projects that could be ripped out once the alternate way of doing things didn't need to be supported any more.