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No-one is going to hard-fork Chromium. The reason you adopt Chromium is because you don't want to pay to maintain your own browser engine.

• roenxi 5y ago
  > The reason you adopt Chromium is because you don't want to pay to maintain your own browser engine. Same argument applies to Gecko, but if people want to get in to the web browser game it makes a lot more sense to start with a de-facto open standard - which is Chromium. There are already a lot of browsers based on that engine, which is apparently named Blink according to Wikipedia, with backers who could easily choose to maintain an engine if they wanted to. If the world ends in 12 months then sure, no-one is going to fork Chromium. But in the future, at some point Google will start doing a bad job maintaining it and Chromium could well be forked. If someone decides they need a browser engine to maintain full time they're probably going to fork Chromium as the technically strongest starting point and start maintaining a branch themselves. Forking Gecko would get them ... not much useful. Maybe some PR points. The Blink license says people can fork it. There isn't any legal or technical reason that it is unforkable. At some point, it will be forked.