As Alex Komoroske, a product manager on Chrome's Open Web Platform told the audience, the team has already removed 8.8 million lines of code from the original WebKit repository.

In true "browser war" fashion, the Blink team has removed all stops, and in just over a month, culled 8.8 million lines of code from Blink.

The bug could enable remote code-execution, information-siphoning or denial-of-service attacks. Google is urging users of its Chrome browser to update after a high-severity vulnerability – which ...

Google is taking its ball and going home, forking the open-source WebKit browser rendering engine that Chrome and Safari currently use and that Opera recently said it would start using.

So why is Google going to all the effort of forking the WebKit rendering engine in order to create Blink? It's down to one thing — the post-PC era that we find ourselves in.

The true ramifications aren't entirely clear yet, but Opera has pledged to embrace Blink and WebKit is already talking about removing Chrome-specific code from its repositories.