Google Chrome is a
freeware web browser developed by
Google that uses the
WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a
beta version for
Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008. As of May 2012, Google Chrome has approximately 33% worldwide
usage share of web browsers, making it the most widely used web browser, according to StatCounter.
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In September 2008, Google released a large portion of Chrome's source code as an
open source project called
Chromium.
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Features
Google Chrome aims to be secure, fast, simple
[82] and stable. There are extensive differences from its peers in Chrome's minimalistic user interface,
[8] which is atypical of modern web browsers.
[83] For example, Chrome does not render
RSS feeds.
[84] Chrome's strength is its application performance and
JavaScript
processing speed, both of which were independently verified by multiple
websites to be the swiftest among the major browsers of its time.
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Many of Chrome's unique features had been previously announced by other
browser developers, but Google was the first to implement and publicly
release them.
[87] For example, its most prominent
graphical user interface (GUI) innovation, the merging of the
address bar and search bar (the
Omnibox), was first announced by
Mozilla in May 2008 as a planned feature for
Firefox.
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