
WebKit was the original rendering engine, but Google eventually forked it to create the Blink engine all Chrome variants except iOS now use Blink.

Īs of October 2021, StatCounter estimates that Chrome has a 68% worldwide browser market share (after peaking at 72.38% in November 2018) on personal computers (PC), is most used on tablets (having surpassed Safari), and is also dominant on smartphones, and at 65% across all platforms combined.

Copies intended for Europe were shipped early and German blogger Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped 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 Google Books, and mentioned it on their official blog along with an explanation for the early release.
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The product was named "Chrome" as an initial development project code name, because it is associated with fast cars and speed. Public releaseĪn early version of Chromium for Linux, explaining the difference between Chrome and Chromium Google kept the development project name as the final release name, as a "cheeky" or ironic moniker, as one of the main aims was to minimize the user interface chrome.
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The browser was first publicly released, officially as a beta version, on Septemfor Windows XP and newer, and with support for 43 languages, and later as a "stable" public release on December 11, 2008.
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On that same day, a CNET 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.
