Google is open-sourcing its Chrome browser on the Apple iOS platform, after making changes enabling the code to be part of Google’s Chromium browser project.
The code will be moved to the open source Chromium repository , which lets developers build their own Chrome-like browsers. It had been kept separate from Chromium because of Apple’s requirement that all iOS browsers be built on the Apple-controlled WebKit rendering engine.
But after years of refactoring to cleanly separate WebKit from the Chrome for iOS code, the Chrome for iOS code is rejoining Chromium, Google said in a bulletin.
