What is "google-chrome"

Google Chrome is a free desktop browser that uses the rendering engine Blink (in English) (a Fork of Webkit (in English)) and engine V8 (in English) of . It was launched in 2008 with the aim of making the web faster.

Most of your code is released as part of the project Chromium. It was assembled by 25 different libraries from Google and third parties such as: Mozilla’s Netscape Portable Runtime, Network Security Services, NPAPI as well as and a number of other open-source projects.

is available in 53 languages and its first public release for Microsoft Windows (XP and earlier versions) was on September 2, 2008 in 43 languages, as a beta version.

Questions about developing extensions for Google Chrome should be used the tag , Application development issues for Chrome should be tagged with the tag


Platforms

Chrome is available for::

  • Windows: XP Service Pack 2 or later / Vista / 7 / 8.
  • OS X: 10.6 or later.
  • Linux: Ubuntu 10.04 or later / Debian 6 or later / openSUSE 11.3 or later / Fedora.
  • iOS 6.0 or later (iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad).
  • Android 4.0 or later.
  • Google TV.

Note: Windows XP will be supported at least until April 2015. More details in that document (in English).


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