Google released the Chrome browser 10 years ago today. It was originally launched as a beta app only for their platform Windows before being developed for Linux and MacOS in 2009.
Google Chrome was released at a time when Internet developers and users were very disappointed by Internet Explorer and Firefox was the alternative.
Google used components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox and made Chrome's source code open and publicly available as Chromium. Chrome focused on web standards and HTML5 and passed both Acid1 and Acid2 tests at launch.
It was an important step at a time when Microsoft had an unacceptable Internet Explorer.
Another important part of the first version of Chrome was the idea of "sandboxing" the individual browser tabs. With technology, if one card crashed, it did not affect the others. This helped improve Chrome's speed and stability, along with Google's JavaScript V8, which the company was constantly modifying for better results.
After a decade of Chrome, Chrome seems to be the dominant game, having now secured more than 60% of the market share of desktop browsers. Chrome developers continue to improve the app with new features and push the latest web templates. Chrome has now transformed into more than just a web browser and supports every Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and even iOS platform.
Chrome works seamlessly with Chrome OS, the lightweight functional σύστημα της Google για φορητούς υπολογιστές. Το λειτουργικό μπορεί να μην είναι ακόμα έτοιμο για tablets, αλλά η Google έχει μεταφέρει με επιτυχία εφαρμογές του Android στο Chrοme OS για να κάνει τα Chromebooks και τα tablets ακόμα πιο χρήσιμα. Σύντομα θα δούμε και εφαρμογές του Linux στο Chrοme OS και ο Chrοme βοηθάει στην χρήση web εφαρμογών.
The future of Chrome seems more and more that it is becoming a platform rather than a simple web browser.
Of course, there are concerns when we see messages like "works best with Google Chrome", but we are talking about an open market. As Google continues to use the latest web templates in Chrome, other browser builders will have to catch up or lag behind Google.
Surely Chrome will be here and the next 10 years. By finding that browsers have been converted to platforms in the last decade, how might they transform in the next 10 years?
I use Chrome on Windows (because I think it or I think it's safe) and Firefox on Linux that does not have so many monitoring trends.