Google Chrome
| Google Chrome | |
|---|---|
| Website | www.google.com/chrome |
| Created by | |
| Developed by | |
| Software type | Web browser |
| Initial release | Sept 2008 |
| Source model | Mostly open source |
| Licence | Google Chrome TOS |
| Supported OSes | Windows |
Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google. Most of the code for Chrome is released in the form of Google's open source Chromium project, but Chrome itself contains closed-source components.
Chrome 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[1]. Somewhat unusally, Google announced Chrome by producing a comic book illustrating the features and design of the browser[2], and have produced a behind-the-scenes video [3].
The open source code base used in Chrome is called 'Chromium' and is released under the BSD License[4]. 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
- ↑ Google Chrome, A fresh take on the browser
- ↑ Google Chrome comic book
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Google Code, Chromium