Google Chrome Wikipedia. This article is about the web browser. For the operating system, see Chrome OS. Google Chrome. DevelopersGoogle Inc. Initial release. September 2, 2. Stable releasesWindows, mac. OS, Linux. 62. 0. November 1. 3, 2. Android. 62. 0. 3. November 2, 2. 01. OS6. 2. 0. 3. 20. October 2. 6, 2. 01. Preview releasesBeta Windows, mac. OS, Linux6. 3. 0. November 1. 5, 2. Beta Android6. 3. November 1. 6, 2. Beta i. OS6. 3. November 1. Dev Windows, mac. OS, Linux6. 4. 0. November 1. 6, 2. Screenshot_2-1-4.png?resize=501%2C416&ssl=1' alt='Steam Offline Installer Latest Version' title='Steam Offline Installer Latest Version' />Dev Android6. November 8, 2. 01. Steam Offline Installer Latest Version' title='Steam Offline Installer Latest Version' />3DMark Basic Edition download for Windows. Version 2. 4. 3819 October 11, 2017. DMark Basic Edition includes Time Spy, the new DirectX 12 benchmark. Dev i. OS6. 4. 0. November 1. 4, 2. Canary Windows, mac. How to Update Windows Defender Offline Install Latest Virus Definition Files Manually Windows Defender is a free antimalware tool from Microsoft which can be used. The easiest, fastest way to update or install software. Ninite downloads and installs programs automatically in the background. OS6. 4. 0. 3. 27. November 1. 7, 2. Screenshot_1-1-3.png?resize=659%2C366&ssl=1' alt='Steam Offline Installer Latest Version' title='Steam Offline Installer Latest Version' />Canary Android6. November 1. 7, 2. Development status. Active. Written in. C9Operating system. Engines. Blink Web. Kit on i. OS, V8. Platform. IA 3. 2, x. ARMv. 7Available in. List of languages. Afrikaans, Amharic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Hong Kong, Chinese PRC, Chinese Taiwan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English AU, English UK, English US, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French Canada, French France, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese Brazil, Portuguese Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish Latin America, Spanish Spain, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Zulu. Type. Web browser, mobile browser. License. Freeware under Google Chrome Terms of Service1. Websitegoogle. comchromebrowserGoogle Chrome is a freewareweb browser developed by Google. It was first released in September 2. Microsoft Windows, and was later ported to Linux, mac. OS, i. OS and Android. Google Chrome is also the main component of Chrome OS, where it serves as a platform for running web apps. Google releases the majority of Chromes source code as the Chromiumopen source project. One component that is not open source is the built in Adobe Flash Player that Chrome has disabled by default since September 2. Chrome used the Web. Kitlayout engine until version 2. As of version 2. 8, all Chrome ports except the i. OS port use Blink, a fork of the Web. Kit engine. 1. 61. As of Q2 2. 01. 7update, Stat. Counter estimates that Google Chrome has a 6. It also has 5. 4 market share across all platforms combined,2. Its success has led to Google expanding the Chrome brand name on various other products such as Chromecast, Chromebook, Chromebit, Chromebox and Chromebase. History. Google CEO Eric Schmidt 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 browser wars. After co founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page hired several Mozilla Firefox 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 2. 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. Mozilla Firefox, which was surging in popularity and taking market share from Internet Explorer, which was suffering from major security problems. Announcement. The release announcement was originally scheduled for September 3, 2. Scott Mc. Cloud was to be sent to journalists and bloggers explaining the features within the new browser. Copies intended for Europe were shipped early and German blogger Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped2. September 1, 2. 00. Google subsequently made the comic available on Google Books2. The product was allegedly named Chrome because Google wanted to minimize the chrome of the browser,2. Public release. An early version of Chromium for Linux, explaining the difference between Chrome and Chromium. The browser was first publicly released on September 2, 2. Windows XP and later, with 4. December 1. 1, 2. On the same day, a CNET news item3. 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. October 2. 00. 8. It then started rising again and by December 2. Chrome again passed the 1 threshold. In early January 2. CNET reported that Google planned to release versions of Chrome for OS X and Linux in the first half of the year. The first official Chrome OS X and Linux developer previews3. June 4, 2. 00. 9, with a blog post4. In December 2. 00. Google released beta versions of Chrome for OS X and Linux. Google Chrome 5. 0, announced on May 2. Chrome was one of the twelve browsers offered to European Economic Area users of Microsoft Windows in 2. Development. Chrome was assembled from 2. Google and third parties such as Mozillas Netscape Portable Runtime, Network Security Services, NPAPI dropped as of version 4. Skia Graphics Engine, SQLite, and a number of other open source projects. The V8. Java. Scriptvirtual machine was considered a sufficiently important project to be split off as was AdobeMozillas Tamarin and handled by a separate team in Denmark coordinated by Lars Bak at Aarhus. According to Google, existing implementations were designed for small programs, where the performance and interactivity of the system werent that important, but web applications such as Gmail are using the web browser to the fullest when it comes to DOM manipulations and Java. Script, and therefore would significantly benefit from a Java. Script engine that could work faster. Chrome initially used the Web. Kit rendering engine to display web pages. In 2. 01. 3, they forked the Web. Core component to create their own layout engine Blink. Based on Web. Kit, Blink only uses Web. Kits Web. Core components, while substituting other components, such as its own multi process architecture, in place of Web. Kits native implementation. Chrome is internally tested with unit testing, automated user interface testing of scripted user actions, fuzz testing, as well as Web. Kits layout tests 9. Chrome is claimed to have passed, and against commonly accessed websites inside the Google index within 2. Google created Gears for Chrome, which added features for web developers typically relating to the building of web applications, including offline support. Google phased out Gears as the same functionality became available in the HTML5 standards. On January 1. 1, 2. Chrome product manager, Mike Jazayeri, announced that Chrome would remove H. HTML5 player, citing the desire to bring Google Chrome more in line with the currently available open codecs available in the Chromium project, which Chrome is based on. Despite this, on November 6, 2. Google released a version of Chrome on Windows which added hardware accelerated H. In October 2. 01. Cisco announced that it was open sourcing its H. On February 7, 2. Google launched Google Chrome Beta for Android 4. On many new devices with Android 4. Chrome is the default browser. In May 2. 01. 7, Google announced a version of Chrome for augmented reality and virtual reality devices. Version history. Features. Major. Geeks. Com Major. Geeks. 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