The Chromium’s Google-authored portion is released under the permission of BSD license which allowed both open source and proprietary software programs to incorporate portions. A Google spokesperson also said that he hoped that other browsers would adopt V8 engine to assist web applications. Third-party developers took advantage of this move and studied the underlying source code which enabled them to port the browser to Linux and Mac OS X. In June 2009, Chrome’s development versions for Linux and Mac OS X were released.Ĭhrome’s full source code was released by Google in September 2008 which also includes its V8 JavaScript engine and this whole open source project was named Chromium. 4 in the list of most widely used browsers and holds 3.9% share of worldwide usage of web browsers. As reported on 1 December 2009, Chrome was No. Google Chrome derived its name from the ‘chrome’ of web browsers that is the graphical user interface frame.
It was first launched on 2nd September 2008 as a beta version for Microsoft Windows and on 11 December 2008 as a public stable release. Google Chrome is a Google’s web browser which utilizes application framework and WebKit layout engine.
