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To be fair, Amazon has developed a Silk browser for their Kindle Fire tablets.

• cle 10y ago
  Silk is a fork of Chromium, Amazon just piggy-backed on Google's hard work. Just like Fire OS itself (a fork of Android).
  • inflagranti 10y ago
    You mean the way Google piggy-packed on Apples work which in turn piggy-backed on KDEs work? Amazon did an extension to optimise rendering on small devices, which is complexity wise not too far off to what Apple & Google contributed to the rendering engines, which at the end is the tricky bit an a browser, not the Chrome.
    • serge2k 10y ago
      No. Google contributed massive amounts to the webkit code and built a full browser around it (including a state of the art javascript engine). Silk is a different story.
    • inflagranti 10y ago
      Really don't understand the downvotes. Whether they gave back to the community or not is another story, but they did piggy-back on previous code, even though adding a lot themselves and giving back a lot, but it still built on massive existing work.