Expanding browsing with Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a proprietary web browser developed by Google, although derived from open source projects. Chrome builds on the Chromium open source browser project. Chrome draws from different code libraries from Google and others from third parties, such as Netscape. Chrome releases are sourced from Chromium.
Regardless of this, Google Chrome is available free of charge.
Google Chrome was launched in 2008, and along with its release, the Chromium source code became available. This allowed the code set to serve as the basis for the development of other browsers. The initial version of the code included builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux at a very early stage of development, lacking full functionality. Chromium 1.0 was released in December 2008 and removed Chrome from beta status for Windows only.
In May 2009, the first alpha version of Chromium for Linux was released. That July, Chromium incorporated native themes for Linux, using...