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 ...

The head of Yahoo, the leading search engine in the early 2000s, is interested in acquiring Chrome, if a court orders a sale. It probably wouldn't be alone.

Following Judge Amit Mehta's ruling that Google was a monopolist in online search last year, the Justice Department pushed for the immediate sale of Chrome. The remedies...