Google has done a ton for PWAs. If apple didn't have the monopoly they have on the ios ecosystem and actually granted PWAs the same accesses they get on android, you'd likely see them taking off.
They're essentially apps that don't have to go through the app store.
The issue is that Google is both the browser, the web standards, the ads, the mail, the search, the phone, the AI, the maps… not a chance to compete with any of that as long as it’s all in one. The only other barely approaching this level is Apple, and we know they have their own anticompetitive aspects.
Allowing corps to grow so much should never have been a thing.
If 10% of intel could be "sold" to the government maybe Chrome should be too? And the there could be 20 year ban written into law on selling it back to private.
Would probably rather end up under the Linux Foundation and not RH. How development would then continue is up for debate.
> Valve?
They already use CEF for their Steam client IIRC, but I don't think they are too much interested in owning an entire browser. Especially considering Valve itself is a relatively small company emplyee wise.
Mozilla already owns a browser, and gets free money from Google to do that. Yet, they have been mismanaging the whole time.
What makes you think they'll suddenly do a good job when the funding goes away, and they have to now support a large userbase which pays $0 to use the product.
Can you name any other company that if they owned Chrome it would've been better for the users and the web?