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Comment by Chico11Kidlet | Hacker News Reader

Wow what are even some of those services?! "IOS Promotion Service"?! Realised where part of chrome's "memory hog" stereotype may come from...

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Some of those services seem to be target specific: Everything starting with "Chrome OS" aren't part of any chrome build outside Chrome OS.

IOS Promotion Service might be https://codereview.chromium.org/2643723004/, so that's running on iOS and nowhere else. As for its value, that's for somebody else to decide (or everybody for themselves).

(Disclosure: working on Chrome OS firmware, which shares approximately no code at all with the components that end up in Chrome userland or any of its derivatives)

So when they say they removed these they mean source code wise not just some compiler flag? Thus making it a proper fork that will deviate over time, not some simple Chromium renamed project. So we may or may not see them pull in Chromium changesets depending on needs.

My biggest hope is that no matter how much Microsoft changes (Chakra instead of V8 would be very interesting to see) that it will remain fully and properly open source moving forward. I wanted to see the original Edge go this route but at least now they can.

Funny how these are now all browsers derived from work by Apple.

Webkit based on KHTML, component of KDE.

This is true as well, although my understanding is that they reworked all of that original code if I'm not mistaken, but nonetheless, a huge amount of credit belongs to both KDE and Apple regardless, which I find fascinating because: Google, Microsoft, and even Amazon (with their Chrome fork for their Fire tablets) benefited from it.

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