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Google Is No Longer Bringing the Full Chrome Browser To Fuchsia

Google has formally discontinued its efforts to bring the full Chrome browser experience to its Fuchsia operating system. 9to5Google reports: In 2021, we reported that the Chromium team had begun an effort to get the full Chrome/Chromium browser running on Google's in-house Fuchsia operating system...

Months later, in early 2022, we were even able to record a video of the progress, demonstrating that Chromium (the open-source-only variant of Chrome) could work relatively well on a Fuchsia-powered device. To observers, this was yet another signal that Google intended for Fuchsia to grow beyond the smart home and serve as a full desktop operating system. The clearest evidence of that move comes from a Chromium code change(and related bug tracker post) published last month declaring that the "Chrome browser on fuchsia won't be maintained."

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