Comment by jmillikin

  > Also, perhaps I'm missing something, but as far as I
  > can tell Chrome is at least partially open source, no?
  > http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code
  > 
  > Why aren't people forking it to create a more privacy
  > friendly version?

People citing privacy as a reason to move away from Chrome are doing so on moral rather than technical grounds. Chromium itself doesn't have anything harmful in it, so there's no point in forking. Chrome is just Chromium plus some third-party proprietary plugins (Flash, the PDF renderer).