Google Chrome Anniversary - 5 years

A small, but already significant in terms of achievements, anniversary of Google Chrome browser, which, it seems, was not noticed in Google itself: On September 2, 2008, the search giant announced the release of its own browser based on the Chromium open source project and released the first public beta of Chrome in 43 languages . The official blog post about this can be read here . In particular, Sandar Pichai (Sundar Pichai) - the head of the Chrome project, now he is working on Android at Google - literally wrote the following:

We realized that the web had evolved from mostly simple text pages to rich interactive applications and we had to completely rethink the browser.

Different analytical agencies consider browsers' popularity in their own way, hesitating to whom to give primacy in the market: for example, StatCounter considers Chrome first and attributes it to an audience of 300 million people or about 43% of the market. Interestingly, at the time of its appearance, the Google brainchild had to contend with a 72% share of Internet Explorer and a 20% other free project - Mozilla Firefox.

Among the main reasons for the popularity of Chrome (it is believed that only 1 day after the beta release, the browser instantly gained about 1.5% of the audience) called the minimalist “flat” interface (the company itself says “clean and fast”), a quick update (every six weeks) - in connection with this, the index of the stable version of Chrome has already reached 29) and support for a whole stack of the latest technologies, such as HTML5, CSS3, the latest JavaScript APIs, WebRTC and WebGL.

As you know, the development of the browser did not stop - in April of this year, Chrome moved to its own Blink engine. Earlier, Chrome "became" an operating system that is completely focused on the Internet - Google Chrome.