Nope. If Google wanted to push things through it would certainly be possible as the single largest contributor, but that's not a productive way for anyone to pa

Nope. If Google wanted to push things through it would certainly be possible as the single largest contributor, but that's not a productive way for anyone to participate. Instead, it's just a matter of simple project divergence. Apple landed the WebKit2 layer a few years ago, which was largely incompatible with the Chrome architecture that predated it by several years. Some minor efforts were made to unify parts, but WebKit2 continued to move in a direction that was increasingly incompatible with the existing Chrome architecture. Rather than burden everyone by continuing to maintain a codebase between these increasingly divergent approaches, it made sense to split.