Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a developed by GOOGLE It used the until version 27 and with the exception of its iOS releases, from version 28 and beyond uses the WebKit It was first released as a for on September 2, 2008, and as a stable public release on December 11, 2008.
As of March 2016, estimates that Google Chrome has a 60.1% worldwide as a desktop browser.It is also the most popular browser for smartphones, and combined across all platforms at about 45%. Its success has led to Google expanding the 'Chrome' brand name on various other products such as th.
Google releases the majority of Chrome's source code as an project A notable component that is not open source is their version of the built-in called Pepper Flash Player.
Google CEO opposed the development of an independent web browser for six years. He stated that "at the time, Google was a small company," and he did not want to go through "bruising After co-founders and hired several developers and built a demonstration of Chrome, Schmidt admitted that "It was so good that it essentially forced me to change my mind."
Rumors of Google building a web browser first appeared in September 2004. Online journals and U.S. newspapers stated at the time that Google was hiring former Microsoft web developers among others. It also came shortly after the final 1.0 release of Mozilla Firefox, which was surging in popularity and taking market share from which was suffering from major security problems.
Announcement
The release announcement was originally scheduled for September 3, 2008, and a comic by was to be sent to journalists and bloggers explaining the features within the new browser. Copies intended for Europe were shipped early and blogger of made a scanned copy of the 38-page comic available on his website after receiving it on September 1, 2008. Google subsequently made the comic available on and mentioned it on their official blog along with an explanation for the early release. The product was allegedly named "Chrome" because Google wanted to minimize the chrome of the browser,though this meaning was added somewhat post-hoc, the 'codename' before release apparently chosen from a connotation of speed (and most simply as a derivative of The browser was first publicly released for Microsoft Windows (xp and later versions) on September 2, 2008 in 43 languages, officially a beta version.
On the same day, a news item drew attention to a passage in the Terms of Service statement for the initial beta release, which seemed to grant to Google a license to all content transferred via the Chrome browser. This passage was inherited from the general Google terms of service.Google responded to this criticism immediately by stating that the language used was borrowed from other products, and removed this passage from the Terms of Service.
Chrome quickly gained about 1% usage share. After the initial surge, usage share dropped until it hit a low of 0.69% in October 2008. It then started rising again and by December 2008, Chrome again passed the 1% threshold.
In early January 2009, CNET reported that Google planned to release versions of Chrome for and in the first half of the year. The first official Chrome OS X and Linux developer previews were announced on June 4, 2009 with a blog post saying they were missing many features and were intended for early feedback rather than general use.
In December 2009, Google released beta versions of Chrome for OS X and Linux. Google Chrome 5.0, announced on May 25, 2010, was the first stable release to support all three platforms.
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