Google Chrome is four years old

Despite the fact that officially the first beta version became available to users on September 2, 2008, a post appeared in the Google corporate blog only today, which noted the success of the browser in a relatively short time. In addition, the developers presented an interactive presentation in which special cards highlighted the main milestones in the development of the browser.

The most significant events that immediately came to mind:

• According to StatCounter, the browser overturned Internet Explorer from a kind of Olympus, and took the first line in the list of the most popular browsers in the world.
• Google Chrome is officially available for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU / Linux, Android, and iOS. As part of the Chromium project, the support park has been expanded to more exotic distributions and even builds have been released for Maemo.
• Thanks to PPAPI, Chrome has become the only browser for which Adobe Flash Player will receive updates on GNU / Linux.
• The aggressive update policy has resulted in the overwhelming majority of browser users switching to a new version within a month, which saves developers from having to crutches for some Chrome 8
• The Google V8 JavaScript engine, which lies at the core of Chrome, has turned out to be in place in the Node.js server platform

All the rest, see here in a special beautiful presentation .

In short, happy birthday, Google Chrome! Stay just as fast, comfortable, synchronized and just plain cool. And the guys from the Chromium project - I wish you success, and also stop stuffing bugs in the tracker, start cutting out webkit prefixes where you need to and avoid regression shoals with CSS that fix almost an hour before the release in Stable.
However, we love you, Chrome =)