Google, in partnership with the Linux Foundation, has launched an initiative to “fund open source development and improvement projects” in the Chromium ecosystem. The foundation, called Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers, is positioned as a “neutral” space for Chromium projects to support.
In 2008, Google launched the Chrome browser, sharing its code with anyone who wanted it. This was the beginning of the Chromium project, which gave birth to many other popular browsers, such as Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Brave. The idea of Chromium was so popular that not only Google but also other companies, such as Meta, Microsoft, and Opera, joined in.
Microsoft has mentioned that its participation is to ensure clear and open governance of the funds they contribute to the community . Google noted that it has made more than 100,000 changes to the Chromium project in the past year alone.
Google sad that it also continues to invest heavily in the overall infrastructure of the project to keep the lights on, including maintaining thousands of servers that endlessly run millions of tests responding to hundreds of bug reports per day to ensure critical ones are fixed, the code is healthy, and the entire project is up and running.
In November, the US Justice Department, in an effort to break Google's monopoly on the search engine market , demanded that the company abandon the Chrome project. A new initiative, Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers, will help support the open source project even without the company's participation.
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