Google subsequently made the comic available on Google Books, and mentioned it on their official blog along with an explanation for the early release. 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. 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. Chrome was "largely developed" in Google's Kitchener office. Development of the browser began in 2006, spearheaded by Sundar Pichai.
Ĭhrome is based on the open-source code of the Chromium project. It also came shortly after the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0, which was surging in popularity and taking market share from Internet Explorer, which had noted security problems. newspapers stated at the time that Google was hiring former Microsoft web developers among others. In September 2004, rumors of Google building a web browser first appeared. After co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page hired several Mozilla Firefox developers and built a demonstration of Chrome, Schmidt said that "It was so good that it essentially forced me to change my mind." He stated that "at the time, Google was a small company", and he did not want to go through "bruising browser wars". Google CEO Eric Schmidt opposed the development of an independent web browser for six years. īecause of the success of Chrome, Google has expanded the "Chrome" brand name to other products: ChromeOS, Chromecast, Chromebook, Chromebit, Chromebox, and Chromebase. With a market share of 65% across all platforms combined, Chrome is the most used web browser in the world today. Īs of October 2022, StatCounter estimates that Chrome has a 67% worldwide browser market share (after peaking at 72.38% in November 2018) on personal computers (PC), is most used on tablets (having surpassed Safari), and is also dominant on smartphones.
WebKit was the original rendering engine, but Google eventually forked it to create the Blink engine all Chrome variants except iOS used Blink as of 2017.
Most of Chrome's source code comes from Google's free and open-source software project Chromium, but Chrome is licensed as proprietary freeware. The browser is also the main component of ChromeOS, where it serves as the platform for web applications. Versions were later released for Linux, macOS, iOS, and also for Android, where it is the default browser. It was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google. Proprietary freeware, based on open source components If you find your version is out-of-date, you can always go to the Chrome download page, download the latest version, and install it.Beta / September 2, 2008 15 years ago ( )ġ.0 / December 11, 2008 15 years ago ( ) If there is an update available, make sure to click Relaunch, so the updates will be applied. To find out which version of Chrome you are using, go to Settings > About Chrome, where you'll see the version number. You can read Google's official statement about the issue.Īlso: Hands on with Google's new Titan Security Keys - and why they still have their place Other than saying this vulnerability exists in the wild, Google has been a bit hush-hush about it. Even so, any bug listed as High should be considered a must-patch. It's interesting to know that this vulnerability is listed as High and not Critical. It is the final vulnerability, listed above, that is the zero-day exploit. CVE-2023-6345: Integer overflow in Skia.CVE-2023-6351: Use after free in libavif.CVE-2023-6350: Out of bounds memory access in libavif.CVE-2023-6346: Use after free in WebAudio.CVE-2023-6348: Type Confusion in Spellcheck.