Chrome supports Theora &#60;video&#62; and it has both huge budget and rapidly growing market share.<p>Chromium supports <i>only</i> Theora &#60;video&#62; and it has both huge budget and growing market share.<p>Google is in the process of paying $100 million for On2, a company whose business model was building video codecs that didn't infringe on anyone elses patents, and the original source for VP3 which was the basis for Theora.