Chrome on Google is an open source free Web browser developed by Google, which is about 1% of the browser market. It was the first publication in a beta version of Microsoft Windows 2nd September 2008. The name comes from a graphical user interface, or "chrome" on the Internet browser.

Chromium is an open source project, behind Google's Chrome and released from the BSD license.It to perform a similar function, which is, but have slightly different logos.

History

Announcements

The release announcement was originally 3 September 2008, and the comic with Scott McCloud would be journalists and bloggers explaining the characteristics and motives, that the new browser. Copies are intended for Europe was sent at the earliest and the German blogger Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped gave a scanned copy, 38 pages of comic book available on his website after the September 1 2008. The Google then made available to Google's comic book and its place and referred to its official blog, together with an explanation of the early dismissal.

Public Release

The browser was the first publicly released the Microsoft Windows (XP and later only) 2 September 2008, 43 languages, and officially a beta-version. Chrome rose about 1% market share. Mac OS X and Linux versions of development.

2. September, the CNET news drew attention to the fact that the transition to the provisions of the original beta, which appears to grant access to Google all the content via the Chrome browser. Access through the case was inherited from the general Google's terms of use. The same day, Google responded to this criticism by saying that the language used was borrowed from other products, and remove the epitome and the terms of use. The Google noted that the changes could apply retroactively to all the users who have downloaded Google Chrome. "It was still worried that the browser uses an unusual accounting functions, which send information on the web-pages back to Google. The company said that this is permitted only when the user Selection by examining the possibility of "help Google better Chrome automatically sending the use of statistics and crash reports to Google" when the browser is installed.

The first publication, Google Acid1 Chrome, and passed the Acid2 test. Even if it does not pass Acid3 test scores of 78 100 from the need to pass a test. It has more than Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 3, but less than the Opera. If we compare the development is based, Chrome basis points less than Firefox, Opera and Safari, but still higher than Internet Explorer.

Unofficial Chrome releases

15 September 2008, CodeWeavers released an unofficial package of wine, and the development of derivatives of Chromium Build 21 Linux and Mac OS X, which they dubbed "Crossover chrome." Work Around the unofficial use of Windows 2000, was a reference to a matter of chromium discussion page. An unofficial patch, which can access scrolling detects errors, which affected a few mouse software.

Iron is the release of Chromium software, which explicitly excludes the use of collection and transfer information to Google, which has discretionary power to Chrome.