Google Chrome

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Google Chrome is an open source web browser made by Google released in September 2008[1] as a beta version for Microsoft Windows. It is designed to be clean and fast, and uses a new JavaScript engine called V8. The key technical innovation is that each tab in the browser is a separate process, meaning that badly-written scripts running in one tab do not affect other tabs[2]. Somewhat unusally, Google announced Chrome by producing a comic book illustrating the features and design of the browser[3], and have produced a behind-the-scenes video [4].

The open source code base used in Chrome is called 'Chromium' and is released under the BSD License[5]. Chromium and Chrome are based on WebKit, an open-source HTML renderer, which is used in the Safari (browser), the iPhone and Android, Google's handheld platform.

References

  1. ↑ Homepage
  2. ↑ Google Chrome, A fresh take on the browser
  3. ↑ Google Chrome comic book
  4. ↑ [1]
  5. ↑ Google Code, Chromium
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