> Can Alphabet fork Chrome (or Firefox) again, and start a new browser project again? No, they're entirely prohibited from making a browser for five years. >

> Can Alphabet fork Chrome (or Firefox) again, and start a new browser project again? No, they're entirely prohibited from making a browser for five years. > Plaintiffs’ PFJ further provides that Google is prohibited from owning not only a browser—following its divestiture of Chrome it may not reenter the browser market for five years—but also from owning or acquiring any investment or interest in any search or search text ad rival, search distributor, or rival query-based AI product or ads technology. From the ruling: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205.1062.0.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.223... ------------- That is, if the case survives and is actually enforced. Google will appeal it and/or the new administration might scrap it altogether.