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Stupid question, but do they prevent google from recreating their own browser? Chromium is mostly open source. They could just fork the project, rename it and support it much better than the open source community. This would place them again as the most used browser due to conveniences of ecosystem integration etc.
No, part of the antitrust requirements would likely be them having to stay out of the browser market for a set number of years.