Google Chrome is a web browser released by Google in September 2008, first as a beta version for Windows. It introduced a fast JavaScript engine called V8, a minimal interface, and a design that ran each tab as a separate process so that a crash in one page did not take down the whole browser. Google presented the project with a comic book by Scott McCloud. The code was released as the open-source Chromium project, which has since been used by many other browsers. Chrome grew quickly and became the most widely used browser in the world within a few years, overtaking Internet Explorer. It was originally based on the WebKit engine, and in 2013 Google switched to its own fork, called Blink.
Before and after
- 15 August 2008Discovery of Aegaeon
- 17 August 2008Michael Phelps wins eight gold medals in Beijing
- 18 August 2008Uzbin Valley ambush
- 28 August 2008Construction of Shanghai World Financial Center
- 2 September 2008Release of Google Chrome
- from 9 September 2008 to 18 January 2013Premiere of Fringe
- 10 September 2008The Large Hadron Collider starts up
- 14 September 2008Publication of The Hunger Games
- from 23 September 2008 to 18 February 2015Premiere of The Mentalist
More in Science & technology
- 25 April 1953Watson and Crick publish the structure of DNA
- 14 February 1961Discovery of lawrencium
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- 1996Discovery of copernicium
- August 2003Discovery of moscovium
- 2006Discovery of nihonium
The era
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