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Chrome First Appearance
The name comes from the graphical user interface frame, or "chrome", of web browsers. The open source project behind Google Chrome is known as Chromium. The first version was a beta for Microsoft Windows was released on September 2, 2008 in 43 languages -
Get Into Google
The release announcement was originally scheduled for September 3, 2008, and a comic by Scott McCloud was to be sent to journalists and bloggers explaining the features within the new browser. Copies intended for Europe were shipped early and German blogger Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped made a scanned copy of the 38-page comic available on his website after receiving it on September 1, 2008. -
Releasing Other Versions
In early January 2009, C NET reported that Google planned to release versions of Chrome for OS X and Linux in the first half of the year. The first official Chrome OS X and Linux developer previews were announced on June 4, 2009, with a blog post saying they were missing many features and were intended for early feedback rather than general use. -
Updates
On January 11, 2011, the Chrome product manager, Mike Jazayeri, announced that Chrome would remove H.264 video codec support for its HTML 5 player, citing the desire to bring Google Chrome more in line with the currently available open codecs available in the Chromium project, which Chrome is based on. -
Chrome Beta
On February 7, 2012, Google launched Google Chrome Beta for Android 4.0 devices.[51] On many new devices with Android 4.1 and later pre-installed, Chrome is the default browser. -
Newer Version
On November 6, 2012, Google released a version of Chrome on Windows which added hardware-accelerated H.264 video decoding. -
Another Announcement
In October 2013, Cisco announced that it was open-sourcing its H.264 codecs and will cover all fees required. -
Removing NPAPI SUPPORT
On September 23, 2013, Google announced that it will be deprecating and then removing NPAPI support. NPAPI support was removed from Linux in Chrome release 35.[92] NPAPI plugins like Java can no longer work in Chrome (but there are workarounds for Flash by using PPAPI Flash Player on Linux including for Chromium). -
Chrome v42
On April 14, 2015, Google released Chrome v42, disabling the NPAPI by default. This makes plugins that do not have a PPAPI plugin counterpart incompatible with Chrome, such as Java, Silverlight and Unity. However, NPAPI support could be enabled through the chrome://flags menu, until the release of version 45 in September 2015, that removed NPAPI support entirely. -
Ratings 2017
Updates made by chrome 9 years ago,July 2017
Google Chrome - Green
Firefox-Orange
Safari-Grey
Internet Explorer-Blue
