Yahoo, backed by its parent company Apollo Global Management, is interested in buying Chrome if a court orders Google to sell it to break its monopoly. Brian Provost, CEO of Yahoo Search, revealed this information during the hearing in Washington and added that the browser could be worth tens of billions of dollars.

Internet company Yahoo Inc. — backed by owner Apollo Global Management Inc. — would bid for the Chrome web browser if a federal court orders Google to divest it as a remedy for maintaining an illegal monopoly,

Google believes it’s the only company that can operate Chrome, the world’s most popular web browser, and that it would suffer in anyone else’s hands. “Trying to disentangle that is unprecedented,” Parisa Tabriz, general manager of Google Chrome, said in federal court Friday.