Fair enough that v8 is an odd case, but it's an external dependency that predates Chrome/Chromium with its own core team, development processes, third-party obligations, and ecosystem. And accepting that, v8 does have third-party contributors (see their policy here: https://code.google.com/p/v8-wiki/wiki/Contributing). Plus, do you really take issue with the occasional quietly developed code drop, because isn't that pretty much how your team introduced asm.js support in Firefox?

Beyond JS engines, you must appreciate that dependencies and business relationships can get very odd when shipping something as big and complicated as a browser. Chrome/Chromium absolutely experiences this, but so does Mozilla. Take HTML EME, where Adobe's technical requirements have pretty much forced Mozilla to break Andreas' and Brendan's original promises on how much the closed-source CDM will be sandboxed. Then there's the h.264 situation, which is an odd multi-step dance to deliver binaries from Cisco, and is significantly more convoluted than Chrome's use of ffmpeg.

Regardless, I don't believe you're really trying to make the argument that Chromium is not a publicly developed open source project with a huge pool of non-Google contributors. Because you know that to simply be an indisputable fact, even if there is additional complexity around certain dependencies and platforms.

Your response is utter nonsense. If you had any legitimate argument to make here you'd be citing something to support these wild accusations, but you have nothing of the sort.

Yes, the bookmarks need some attention. The new UX I saw for bookmarks presented them as a grid of large colourful squares but I wasn't sure that was easier to read or use than a list. Hopefully someone will come up with something (that will no doubt be hated by many).

I always thought the system for displaying the bookmarks bar was a bit daft because you could only see about 10 bookmarks before running out of horizontal room. On OSX at least we have a dedicated "Bookmarks" menu but using it under Linux and Windows was always painful due to this strange (IMHO) design.