Google Chrome Browser

Google’s upcoming Chrome OS was previewed last month at the Google Head quarters. As the OS development advances, Google has already started tapping netbook makers for Chrome OS netbooks. IBTimes reported that Google had sent out requests for proposals and contacted hardware manufacturers with netbook specifications and design. Unless Google says it officially, we will still count these specifications as speculation.

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on 2 September 2008, and the public stable release was on 11 December 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or “chrome”, of web browsers. As of December 2009[update], Chrome was the third most widely used browser, with 4.4% of worldwide usage share of web browsers.

At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we’ve now made the comic publicly available — you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.