History

Google CEO Eric Schmidt opposed the development of an independent web browser for six years. He
stated that "at the time, Google was a small company," and he did not want to go through "bruising
browser wars." After co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page hired several Mozilla Firefox developers
and built a demonstration of Chrome, Schmidt admitted that "It was so good that it essentially forced
me to change my mind."

The browser was first publicly released on September 2, 2008 for Windows XP and later, with 43
supported languages, officially a beta version,[30] and as a stable public release on December 11,
2008.

Google Chrome logos

3D motif from project start until March 2011

2D motif from March 2011 to October 2015

Material Design motif used from September 2014 onward for mobile version and October
2015 onward for the desktop version

Advantages of Google Chrome (would you recommend)

Advantages:
 Chrome is an extremely fast web browser; it loads and displays pages very quickly.
  You can drag tabs out into separate windows, without difficulty, and back in again
with your mouse.
 Google Chrome has a very basic, simple design, making it easy to use.
 The start-up page lists the most frequent pages you’ve visited and allows you to click
and access them with ease.
 Chrome automatically translates pages into a language you understand for your
convenience.
 You can search the internet through your address bar at any time.
 If a site crashes on one of your tabs, other open tabs will not be affected.
You may browse the internet without being logged using Chrome’s new private
feature: Incognito.
 Unlike Firefox and Safari, you can alter the colour and theme of the browser.
 Chrome is faster than Explorer and FireFox.
 Chrome takes only seconds to install.

How to Improve
 Chrome Notepad lets you save notes accessible on other PCs running Chrome (with the same
extension installed, of course), syncing your text with an online server.

 Highlight and Capture: allow you to highlight/ mark an entire/ a portion of a webpage and
edit, add annotations, or save

 Links preview: hover cursor over link and preview webpage before entering it

 Auto define & translate: use cursor to hover over word and definition or translation into
certain language will appear

Features
https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/features.ht
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Major Updates:
 Version: 4.0.249 | Date: 01-25-2010 | *Extensions*
 Version: 6.0.472 | Date: 09-02-2010 | *Form Auto-Fill.*
 Version: 8.0.552 | Date: 12-02-2010 | *Chrome Web Store.*
 Version: 10.0.648 | Date: 03-08-2011 | *Password Sync.*
 Version: 17.0.963 | Date: 02-08-2012 | *Removal of “+” Symbol From The New
Tab Button.
  Version: 19.0.1084 | Date: 05-15-2012 | *Access Tabs Between Devices.*
 Version: 27.0.1453 Date: 05-21-2013 | *Resource Handling Optimized For Faster
Page Load Time.*
 Version: 30.0.1599 [Current] Date: 10-01-2013 | *Easier Searching By Image.*
*New UI.* *New Platform Features.*

Features:
Google Chrome aims to be secure, fast, simple, and stable. With its’ latest update providing
the Minimalistic look just makes me go “WOW!” Google merges the address bar and the
search box which is knows as Omnibar which makes the users search and surf the web
instantly. It provides us extensions which can be installed from the chrome store. There are
many extensions, but for now let’s take “Ad blocker” as an example. It is an extension and it
can block all the unnecessary ads that annoy you while you are surfing Google
Chrome. Chrome allows users to synchronize their bookmarks and settings across all devices
with the browser installed by sending and receiving data through a chosen Google Account,
which in turn updates all signed-in instances of Chrome.

Privacy Mode:
The private browsing feature called Incognito mode prevents the browser from permanently
storing any history information or cookies from the websites visited. Incognito mode is
similar to the private browsing feature in other web browsers. Chrome was the second
browser to add this feature, after Safari. Incognito mode can be enabled by pressing
Ctrl+Shift+N.