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Google Chrome OS 'Google Chrome OS' is a Linux-based Operating System designed by Google to work primarily with web applications. The user interface takes a minimalism (computing)|minimalist approach and consists almost entirely of just the Google Chrome web browser; since the Operating System is aimed at users who spend most of their computer time on the Web, the only native applications on Chrome OS are a browser, media player and file manager. This means that Chrome OS is almost a pure web thin client OS.

Google Chrome OS Chrome OS is built upon the open source project called Chromium OS which, unlike Chrome OS, can be compiled from the downloaded source code. Chrome OS is the commercial version installed on specific hardware from Google's manufacturing partners. The launch date for retail hardware featuring Chrome OS was delayed from late 2010 to June 15, 2011, when Chromebooks from Samsung, and then Acer shipped in July.

Google Chrome OS - History
Chrome OS's origins are unclear

Google announced Chrome OS on July 7, 2009, describing it as an Operating System in which both applications and user data reside in the cloud computing|cloud

On November 19, 2009, Google released Chrome OS's source code as the Chromium OS project. As with other open source projects, developers can modify the code from Chromium OS and build their own versions, whereas Chrome OS code is only supported by Google and its partners and only runs on hardware designed for the purpose. Unlike Chromium OS, Chrome OS is automatically updated to the latest version.

At a November 19, 2009 news conference, Sundar Pichai, the Google vice president overseeing Chrome, demonstrated an early version of the Operating System. He previewed a desktop which looked very similar to the Chrome browser, and, in addition to the regular browser tabs, also had application tabs, which take less space and can be pinned for easier access. At the conference, the Operating System booting|booted up in seven seconds, a time Google said it would work to reduce.

Also on November 19, 2009, Chris Kenyon, vice president of OEM services at Canonical Ltd, announced that Canonical is contributing engineering to Google under contract. In our discussions, Sundar Pichai and Linus Upson made it clear that they want, wherever feasible, to build on existing components and tools from the open source community without unnecessary re-invention. This clear focus should benefit a wide variety of existing projects and we welcome it.

By February 2010, Google switched its foundation Linux distribution from Ubuntu (Operating System)|Ubuntu to Gentoo Linux in order to use that distribution's Portage (software)|Portage package management system, which, according to sources at Google, is used with Google's own take on the Vanilla (software)|vanilla Linux kernel.

Google Chrome OS - Hardware
Laptops running Chrome OS are known collectively as Chromebooks. The first was the CR-48, a reference design|reference hardware design that Google gave to testers and reviewers beginning in December Retail machines followed in May 2011, including a desktop design known as a Chromebox.

Google Chrome OS - Feature updates
In April 2012, Google made the first update to Chrome OS's user interface since the Operating System had launched, introducing a hardware-accelerated window manager called Aura along with a conventional taskbar

Google Chrome OS - Applications
Google has encouraged developers to build not just conventional Web applications for Chrome OS, but Packaged applications using the company's Package App Platform

Google Chrome OS - Remote application access and virtual desktop access
In June 2010, Google software engineer Gary Kačmarčík wrote that Chrome OS will access remote applications through a technology unofficially called Chromoting, which would resemble Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection

Google Chrome OS - Integrated media player, file manager
Google integrates a Media player (application software)|media player into both Chrome OS and the Chrome browser, enabling users to play back MP3s, view JPEGs, and handle other multimedia files while offline.

Chrome OS also includes an integrated file manager, resembling those found on other Operating Systems, with the ability to display folders and their associated files, as well as preview and manage file contents using a variety of Web applications, including Google Docs and Box.net.

The file manager in Chrome OS showing a mounted Google Drive. Google Drive integration in the file manager was introduced with Aura and Ash, in the spring of 2012.

Google Chrome OS - Reception
At its debut, Chrome OS was viewed as a competitor to Microsoft, both directly to Microsoft Windows and indirectly the company's word processing and spreadsheet applications—the latter through Chrome OS's reliance on cloud computing

Google Chrome OS - Reception
Some observers claimed that other Operating Systems already filled the niche that Chrome OS was aiming for, with the added advantage of supporting native applications in addition to a browser

Google Chrome OS - Relationship to Android
Google's successive introductions of the popular Android (Operating System)|Android and Chrome OS strategy has resulted in some critics of the dual open source, client-based Operating Systems

Google Chrome OS - Relationship to Android
The July 2013 press introduction of the Chromecast HDMI stick, which was hosted by Pichai, demonstrated how the two Operating Systems could work in tandem

Google Chrome OS - Design
Early in the project, Google put online many details of Chrome OS's design goals and direction. However, the company has not followed up with a technical description of the completed Operating System.

Google Chrome OS - User interface
Design goals for Chrome OS's user interface included using minimal screen space by combining applications and standard Web pages into a single tab strip, rather than separating the two

Google Chrome OS - New window manager and graphics engine
On April 10, 2012, a new build of Chrome OS offered a choice between the original full-screen window interface and overlapping, re-sizable windows, such as found on Microsoft Windows and Apple inc.|Apple's OS X|Mac OS X

Google Chrome OS - Architecture
In preliminary design documents for the Chromium OS open source project, Google described a three-tier architecture: firmware, browser and window manager, and system-level software and user space|userland services.

* The firmware contributes to fast boot time by not probing for hardware, such as floppy disk drives, that are no longer common on computers, especially netbooks. The firmware also contributes to security by verifying each step in the boot process and incorporating system recovery.

* System-level software includes the Linux kernel that has been patched to improve boot performance. Userland software has been trimmed to essentials, with management by Upstart, which can launch services in parallel, re-spawn crashed jobs, and defer services in the interest of faster booting.

* The window manager handles user interaction with multiple client windows much like other X window managers.

Google Chrome OS - Hardware support
Chrome OS is initially intended for secondary devices like netbooks, not as a user's primary PC, and will run on hardware incorporating an x86 or ARM architecture|ARM-based processor

Google Chrome OS - Printing
Google Cloud Print is a Google service that helps any application on any device to print on any printer

Google Chrome OS - Link handling
Chrome OS was designed with the intention of having user documents and files stored on online servers

Google Chrome OS - Security
In March 2010, Google software security engineer Will Drewry discussed Chrome OS security

Google Chrome OS - Security
At a December 2010 press conference, Google claimed that Chrome OS would be the most secure consumer Operating System due in part to a verified boot ability, in which the initial boot code, stored in read-only memory, checks for system compromises.

Google Chrome OS - Shell access
Chrome OS includes the Chrome Shell, or crosh, which offers minimal functionality such as ping and Secure Shell|SSH, but no Bash (Unix shell)|Bash-like shell (computing)|shell abilities. In developer mode, a full-featured Bash shell can be opened via virtual terminal|VT-2, and is also accessible via the crosh command shell.

Google Chrome OS - Release channels and updates
Chrome OS uses the same release system as Google Chrome: there are three distinct channels: Stable, Beta, and Developer preview (called the Dev channel). The stable channel will be updated with features and fixes once they have been thoroughly tested in the Beta channel, and the Beta channel will be updated roughly monthly with stable and complete features from the Developer channel. The Developer channel is where ideas get tested, and sometimes fail, and can be very unstable at times.

Google Chrome OS - Chrome OS on Windows 8
On Windows 8, exceptions allow the default desktop web browser to offer a variant that can run inside its full-screen Metro (design language)|Metro shell and access features such as the Share charm, without necessarily needing to be written with Windows Runtime

Google Chrome for Android
Google's 'Chrome for Android' is an edition of Google Chrome released for the Android (Operating System)|Android system. On February 7, 2012, Google launched Google Chrome Beta for Ice Cream Sandwich (Operating System)|Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) devices, for selected countries. The first stable version of the browser was released on June 27, Chrome , released on September 26, 2012 was the first version of Chrome for Android to support Intel x86 based mobile devices.

Google Chrome for Android - Features
'Google Chrome Beta' for Android (Operating System)|Android devices was available for devices running the Ice Cream Sandwich (Operating System)|Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) or above version of the Operating System. It was launched on February 7, 2012, for a limited number of countries. The Android version can be installed from Google Play. It currently lacks some features available in the desktop version, but has some additional features:

* Many of the latest HTML5 features to the Android platform, almost all of the Web Platform’s features: GPU-accelerated canvas, including CSS 3D Transforms, CSS animations, SVG, WebSocket (including binary messages), Dedicated Workers; it has overflow scroll support, strong HTML5 video support, and new capabilities such as IndexedDB, WebWorkers, Application Cache and the File APIs, date and time pickers, parts of the Media Capture API

* Link Preview allows zooming in on (multiple) links so as to ensure clicking on the right one.

* Font Boosting is used when text on the website is too small to be read properly. It uses an algorithm to increase font sizes when necessary, aiming to make the text readable regardless of the zoom level.

* No support for Safe Browsing

* Chrome apps and extensions are not supported.

* Does not support Adobe Flash and will not do so in the future

* Part of the browser layer has been implemented in Java, communicating with the rest of the Chromium and Blink code through Java Native Interface|Java Native Bindings.

The code of Chrome for Android is a fork (software development)|fork of the Chromium project. One of the top priorities is upstreaming most new and modified code to Chromium and WebKit to resolve the fork.

On the June 27, 2012 Google Chrome for Android exited beta and became stable.

Chrome , released at September 26, 2012 was the first version of Chrome for Android to support Intel x86 based mobile devices.

Google brought Chrome for Android in line with the desktop version with Chrome 25. They released a separate Chrome for Android beta channel on January 10, 2013, it runs side-by-side with the stable channel for Android.

Google Chrome for Android - Reception
JR Raphael, writing for ComputerWorld noted functions separately from the stock system browser -- and offers plenty of advantages over it, too.

Chrome for Android gets tabs right

The GSMArena review noted that Performance-wise Chrome is fast

Google Chrome 'Google Chrome' is a freeware web browser developed by Google. It used the WebKit layout engine until version 27 and, with the exception of its iOS releases, from version 28 and beyond uses the WebKit Fork (software development)|fork Blink (layout engine)|Blink. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and as a stable public release on December 11, 2008.

Google Chrome Net Applications has indicated that Chrome is the third-most popular web browser when it comes to the size of its user base, behind Internet Explorer and Firefox. StatCounter, however, estimates that Google Chrome has a 39% worldwide usage share of web browsers, making it the most widely used web browser in the world.

Google Chrome In September 2008, Google released the majority of Chrome's source code as an open source project called Chromium (web browser)|Chromium, on which Chrome releases are still based. Notable components that are not open source are the built-in PDF viewer and the built-in Flash player.

Google Chrome - History
Google's 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, however, Schmidt admitted that It was so good that it essentially forced me to change my mind.

Google Chrome - Announcement
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

Google Chrome - Public release
The browser was first publicly released for Microsoft Windows (Windows XP|XP and later versions) on September 2, 2008 in 43 languages, officially a beta version.

On the same day, a CNET news item drew attention to a passage in the Terms of Service statement for the initial beta release, which seemed to grant to Google a license to all content transferred via the Chrome browser. This passage was inherited from the general Google terms of service. Google responded to this criticism immediately by stating that the language used was borrowed from other products, and removed this passage from the Terms of Service.

Chrome quickly gained about 1% usage share. After the initial surge, usage share dropped until it hit a low of 0.69% in October It then started rising again and by December 2008, Chrome again passed the 1% threshold.

In early January 2009, CNET reported that Google planned to release versions of Chrome for OS X and Linux in the first half of the year. The first official Chrome OS X and Linux developer previews were announced on June 4, 2009 with a blog post saying they were missing many features and were intended for early feedback rather than general use.

In December 2009, Google released beta versions of Chrome for OS X and Linux. Google Chrome 5.0, announced on May 25, 2010, was the first stable release to support all three platforms.

Chrome was one of the BrowserChoice.eu|twelve browsers offered to European Economic Area users of Microsoft Windows in 2010.

Google Chrome - Development
Chrome was assembled from 25 different code libraries from Google and third parties such as Mozilla's Netscape Portable Runtime, Network Security Services, NPAPI, Skia Graphics Engine, SQLite, and a number of other open-source projects

Chrome uses the Blink (layout engine)|Blink rendering engine to display web pages. Based on WebKit, Blink only uses WebKit's WebCore components while substituting all other components, such as its own multi-process architecture in place of WebKit's native implementation.

Chrome is internally tested with unit testing, automated user interface testing of scripted user actions, fuzz testing, as well as WebKit's layout tests (99% of which Chrome is claimed to have passed), and against commonly accessed websites inside the Google index within 20–30 minutes.

Google created Gears (software)|Gears for Chrome, which added features for web developers typically relating to the building of web applications, including offline support. However, Google phased out Gears in favor of HTML5.

On January 11, 2011 the Chrome product manager, Mike Jazayeri, announced that Chrome would remove H.264/MPEG-4 AVC|H.264 video codec support for its HTML5 player, citing the desire to bring Google Chrome more in line with the currently available open codecs available in the Chromium project, which Chrome is based on

On February 7, 2012, Google launched Google Chrome Beta for Android 4.0 devices. On many new devices with Jelly Bean (Operating System)|Android 4.1 and later preinstalled, Chrome is the default browser.

On April 3, 2013, Google announced that it would Fork (software development)|fork the WebCore component of WebKit to form its own layout engine known as Blink. The aim of Blink will be to give Chrome's developers more freedom in implementing its own changes to the engine, and to allow its codebase to be trimmed of code that is unnecessary or unimplemented by Chrome.

Google Chrome - Enterprise deployment
In December 2010 Google announced that to make it easier for businesses to use Chrome they would provide an official Chrome Windows Installer|MSI package

Google Chrome - Chromium
In September 2008, Google released a large portion of Chrome's source code as an open source project called Chromium

Google Chrome - Features
Google Chrome aims to be secure, fast, simple and stable

Google Chrome - Bookmarks and settings synchronisation
Chrome allows users to synchronize their bookmarks, history, 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.

Google Chrome - Web standards support
Chrome currently has very good support for JavaScript/ECMAScript according to Ecma International's ECMAScript standards conformance Test 262 (version ES5.1 of )

On the official CSS 2.1 test suite by standardization organization W3C, WebKit, the Chrome rendering engine, passes 89.75% (89.38% out of 99.59% covered) CSS 2.1 tests.

On the HTML5 test, Chrome 31 on desktop scores 503 out of 555 points, which makes it the first place among desktop browsers. Chrome 31 for Android holds the first place among tablet browsers and the second place among mobile browsers, with 482 points.

Google Chrome - Security
Chrome periodically retrieves updates of two Blacklist (computing)|blacklists (one for phishing and one for malware), and warns users when they attempt to visit a harmful site. This service is also made available for use by others via a free public API called Google Safe Browsing API.

Chrome uses a complex process-allocation model to allocate different Tab (GUI)|tabs to Sandbox (computer security)|fit into different process (computing)|processes to prevent what happens in one tab from affecting what happens in others

In December 2011 a report by Accuvant, funded by Google, rated the sandbox security of Google Chrome 12 and 13 as better than either Internet Explorer 9 or Mozilla Firefox 5.

Since 2008 Chrome has been faulted for not including a master password to prevent casual access to a user's passwords. Chrome developers have indicated that a master password does not provide real security against determined hackers and have refused to implement one. Bugs filed on this issue have been marked WontFix.

Google Chrome - Security vulnerabilities
No security vulnerabilities in Chrome had been successfully exploited in the three years of Pwn2Own from 2009–2011.

However, Chrome was defeated at Pwn2Own 2012, by a France|French team who used zero day exploits in the version of Flash shipped with Chrome to take complete control of a fully patched 64-bit Windows 7 PC using a booby-trapped website that overcame Chrome's sandboxing.

Chrome was also compromised twice at the 2012 CanSecWest Pwnium. Google's official response to the exploits was delivered by Jason Kersey, who congratulated the researchers, noting We also believe that both submissions are works of art and deserve wider sharing and recognition. Fixes for these vulnerabilities were deployed within 10 hours of the submission.

Version 23 fixed 15 security vulnerabilities of which six were rated as high priority.

Google Chrome - Malware blocking
Google introduced download scanning protection in Chrome 17.

Google Chrome - Plugins
* Chrome supports Plug-in (computing)|plug-ins with the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI), so that plug-ins (for example Adobe Flash Player) run as an unrestricted separate process outside the browser and cannot be sandboxed as tabs are

Google Chrome - Plugins
* On August 12, 2009, Google introduced a replacement for NPAPI that is more portable and more secure called Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI). The default bundled PPAPI Flash Player (or Pepper-based Flash Player) was available on Chrome OS first, then replaced the NPAPI Flash Player on Linux from Chrome version 20, on Windows from version 21 (which also reduced Flash crashes by 20%), and eventually came to OS X at version 23.

Google Chrome - Privacy mode
The privacy mode|private browsing feature called Incognito mode prevents the browser from permanently storing any web browsing history|history information or HTTP cookie|cookies from the websites visited. Incognito mode is similar to the private browsing feature in other web browsers. Chrome was the second browser to implement this feature, after Safari (web browser)|Safari.

Google Chrome - User tracking
Chrome sends details about its users to Google through both optional and non-optional user tracking mechanisms.

Some of the tracking mechanisms can be optionally enabled and disabled through the installation interface and through the browser's options dialog. Unofficial builds, such as SRWare Iron and CoolNovo (previously known as ChromePlus), seek to remove these features from the browser altogether. The RLZ feature is not included in the Chromium browser either.

In March 2010, Google devised a new method to collect installation statistics: the unique ID token included with Chrome is now only used for the first connection that Google Update makes to its server.

The optional suggestion service included in Google Chrome has been criticized because it provides the information typed into the Omnibox to the search provider before the user even hits return. This allows the search engine to provide URL suggestions, but also provides them with web usage information tied to an IP address.

The optional feature to use a web service to help resolve spelling errors has privacy implications.

Google Chrome - Do Not Track
In February 2012, Google announced that Chrome would support Do Not Track by the end of 2012 and the protocol was implemented on version 23.

Google Chrome - Speed The JavaScript virtual machine used by Chrome, the V8 JavaScript engine, has features such as just-in-time compilation|dynamic code generation, hidden class transitions, and Conservative garbage collection|precise garbage collection.

Google Chrome - Speed Several websites performed benchmark tests using the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark tool as well as Google's own set of computationally intense benchmarks, which include ray tracing (graphics)|ray tracing and constraint solving

Google Chrome - Speed On September 3, 2008, Mozilla responded by stating that their own TraceMonkey JavaScript engine (then in beta), was faster than Chrome's V8 engine in some tests

Google Chrome - Speed Two weeks after Chrome's launch, the WebKit team announced a new JavaScript engine, WebKit#Further development|SquirrelFish Extreme, citing a 36% speed improvement over Chrome's V8 engine.

Google Chrome - Speed Chrome uses Domain Name System|DNS prefetching to speed up website lookups, as other browsers like Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer (called DNS Pre-resolution), and in Opera (web browser)|Opera as a UserScript (not built-in).

Google Chrome - Speed Chrome utilizes the faster SPDY protocol instead of HTTP when communicating with servers that support it, such as Google services, Facebook, Twitter, and other websites.

Google Chrome - Stability
A multi-process architecture is implemented in Chrome where, by default, a separate process is allocated to each site instance and plugin

Google Chrome - Stability
Chrome includes a process management (computing)|process management utility called Task Manager which lets users see what sites and plugins are using the most random-access memory|memory, downloading the most bytes and overusing the central processing unit|CPU and provides the ability to terminate them. Chrome Version 23 ensures its users an improved battery life for the systems supporting Chrome's GPU accelerated video decoding.

Google Chrome - User interface
By default, the main user interface includes back, forward, refresh/cancel and menu buttons. A home button is not shown by default, but can be added through the Settings page to take the user to the new tab page or a custom home page.

Tab (GUI)|Tabs are the main component of Chrome's user interface and as such, have been moved to the top of the window rather than below the controls. This subtle change contrasts with many existing tabbed browsers which are based on window (computing)|windows and contain tabs. Tabs, with their state, can be transferred seamlessly between window containers by dragging. Each tab has its own set of controls, including the Omnibox.

The Omnibox is a address bar|URL box that combines the functions of both the address bar and search box

In Google Chrome 2.0, the New Tab Page was updated to allow users to hide thumbnails they did not want to appear.

Starting in version 3.0, the New Tab Page was revamped to display thumbnails of the eight most visited web sites. The thumbnails could be rearranged, pinned, and removed. Alternatively, a list of text links could be displayed instead of thumbnails. It also features a Recently closed bar that shows recently closed tabs and a tips section that displays hints and tricks for using the browser.

Chrome includes a bookmarks submenu that lists the user's bookmarks, provides easy access to Chrome's Bookmark Manager, and allows the user to toggle a bookmarks bar on or off.

For web developers, Chrome features an element inspector (Inspect Element) similar to the one in Firebug (Firefox extension)|Firebug.

Chrome has special URLs that load application-specific pages instead of websites or files on disk. Chrome also has a built-in ability to enable experimental features. Originally called about:labs, the address was changed to about:flags to make it less obvious to casual users.

In March 2011, Google introduced a new simplified logo to replace the previous 3D logo that had been used since the project's inception. Google designer Steve Rura explained the company reasoning for the change: Since Chrome is all about making your web experience as easy and clutter-free as possible, we refreshed the Chrome icon to better represent these sentiments. A simpler icon embodies the Chrome spirit – to make the web quicker, lighter, and easier for all.

Google Chrome - Desktop shortcuts and apps
Chrome allows users to make local desktop computer shortcut|shortcuts that open web applications in the browser. The browser, when opened in this way, contains none of the regular interface except for the title bar, so as not to interrupt anything the user is trying to do. This allows web applications to run alongside local software (similar to Mozilla Prism and Fluid (web browser)|Fluid).

Google Chrome - Desktop shortcuts and apps
This feature, according to Google, will be enhanced with the Chrome Web Store, a one-stop web-based web applications directory which opened in December 2010.

Google Chrome - Chrome Web Store
Announced on December 7, 2010, the Chrome Web Store allows users to install web applications as extensions to the browser, although most of these function simply as links to popular web pages and/or games, but some of the apps like Springpad do provide extra features like offline access. The themes and extensions have also been tightly integrated into the new store, allowing users to search the entire catalog of Chrome extras.

Google Chrome - Chrome Web Store
The Chrome Web Store was opened on February 11, 2011 with the release of Google Chrome 9.0.

Google Chrome - Extensions
On September 9, 2009, Google enabled extensions by default on Chrome's Dev channel, and provided several sample extensions for testing. In December, the Google Chrome extension gallery beta began with over 300 extensions.

Along with Google Chrome 4.0, the extension gallery was officially launched on January 25, 2010, containing over 1500 extensions.

As of February 4, 2011, the extension gallery featured more than 11,500 extensions, including official extensions from the Independent, CEOP, Transport for London, Cricinfo, WOT: Web of Trust|Web of Trust (WOT) and FIFA.

Many Chrome extensions, once installed, have access to the user's data. There are three levels of permissions that an app or extension may request.

Google Chrome - Themes Starting with Google Chrome 3.0, users can install themes to alter the appearance of the browser. Many free third-party themes are provided in an online gallery, accessible through a Get themes button in Chrome's options.

Google Chrome - Automatic web page translation
Starting with Google Chrome 4.1 the application added a built-in translation bar using Google Translate. Translation is currently available for 52 languages.

Google Chrome - Release channels and updates
The reason given by Google is that the Developer channel builds are less stable and polished than those that Developer channel users were getting during Google Chrome's Beta period

Canary releases run side-by-side with any other channel; it is not linked to the other Google Chrome installation and can therefore run different synchronization profiles, themes, and browser preferences

Chrome beta for Android was launched on January 10, 2013; like Canary, it runs side-by-side with the stable channel for Android.

Chrome automatically keeps itself up-to-date. The details differ by platform.

On Windows, it uses Google Update, and auto-update can be controlled via Group Policy. Alternatively, users may download one of two standalone installers of a version of Chrome that does not auto-update. On OS X, it uses Google Update Service, and auto-update can be controlled via the OS X defaults system. On Linux, it lets the system's normal package management system supply the updates.

Google Chrome - Color management
Chrome supports color management by using the system provided ICC v2 and v4 support on OS X, and from version 22 supports ICC v2 profiles by default on other platforms.

Google Chrome - Platforms
** As of 2012, 32-bit and 64-bit builds are available for Linux, with only 32-bit builds available for OS X and Windows at this time.

Google Chrome - Android version
A beta version for Android 4.0 devices was launched on February 7, 2012, available for a limited number of countries from Google Play.

Notable features: synchronization with desktop Chrome to provide the same bookmarks and view the same browser tabs,. page pre-rendering,. hardware acceleration.

Many of the latest HTML5 features: almost all of the Web Platform’s features: GPU-accelerated canvas, including CSS 3D Transforms, CSS animations, SVG, WebSocket (including binary messages), Dedicated Workers; it has overflow scroll support, strong HTML5 video support, and new capabilities such as IndexedDB, WebWorkers, Application Cache and the File APIs, date and time pickers, parts of the Media Capture API.. Also supports mobile oriented features such as Device Orientation and Geolocation.

Mobile customisations: swipe gesture tab switching, link preview allows zooming in on (multiple) links to ensure the desired one is clicked, font size boosting to ensure readability regardless of the zoom level.

Missing in the mobile version are sandboxed tabs,. Safe Browsing, apps or extensions, Adobe Flash (now and in future), Native Client.

Development changes: remote debugging,. part of the browser layer has been implemented in Java, communicating with the rest of the Chromium and WebKit code through Java Native Bindings. The code of Chrome for Android is a fork of the Chromium project. It is a priority to upstream most new and modified code to Chromium and WebKit to resolve the fork.

The April 17, 2012 update included the availability to access in 31 additional languages and in all countries where Google Play is available. A desktop version of a website can also be requested as opposed to a mobile version. In addition, Android users can now add bookmarks to their Android home screens if they choose and decide which apps should handle links opened in Chrome.

Starting from version 25, the Chrome version for Android is aligned with the desktop version, and usually new stable releases are available at the same time between the Android and the desktop version. Google released a separate Chrome for Android beta channel on January 10, 2013, with version 25. Currently, a separate beta version of Chrome is available in the Google Play store and it can run side-by-side with the stable release.

Google Chrome - Chrome OS
Google Chrome is the basis of Google's Chrome OS Operating System that ships on specific hardware from Google's manufacturing partners. The user interface has a minimalism (computing)|minimalist design resembling the Google Chrome browser. Chrome OS is aimed at users who spend most of their computer time on the Web; the only applications on the devices are a browser incorporating a media player and a file manager.

Google Chrome - iOS version
Chrome is available on Apple Inc.|Apple's mobile iOS Operating System as Google Chrome for iOS

Google Chrome - iOS version
In a review by Chitika, Chrome was noted as having 1.5% of the iOS web browser market as of July 18, 2012.

Google Chrome - Metro version
In June 2012, Windows 8 mode was introduced to Dev channel, which enables Windows 8 users to run Chrome in a full-screen, tablet-optimized interface within the Metro (design language)|Metro shell, with access to snapping, sharing, and search functionalities. In October 2013, Windows 8 mode on Dev channel changed to use a desktop environment mimicking the interface of Chrome OS with a dedicated windowing system and taskbar for web apps.

Google Chrome - Usage In 2008, Matthew Moore in the The Daily Telegraph summarized the verdict of early reviewers: Google Chrome is attractive, fast and has some impressive new features, but may not — yet — be a threat to its Microsoft rival.

Google Chrome - Usage Initially, Microsoft reportedly played down the threat from Chrome and predicted that most people would embrace Internet Explorer 8

Google Chrome - Usage Chrome overtook Firefox in November 2011 in worldwide usage. , according to StatCounter, Google Chrome had 34% worldwide usage share of web browsers|usage share, making it the most widely used web browser, while Internet Explorer had 33% and Firefox had 22%.For additional sources see Usage share of web browsers#Summary table

Google Chrome - Usage Along with Safari (web browser)|Safari and Firefox|Mozilla Firefox, Chrome receives a weekend bump, which boosts its marketshare by as much as three percentage points on week-ends, at the expense of Internet Explorer.

Google Chrome - Usage It was reported by StatCounter, a web analytics company, that for the single day of Sunday, March 18, 2012 Chrome was the most used web browser in the world for the first time. Chrome secured 32.7% of the global web browsing on that day, while Internet Explorer followed closely behind with 32.5%.

Google Chrome - Usage From May 14–21, 2012 Google Chrome was responsible for more Internet traffic than Microsoft's Internet Explorer (for the first time), which long had held its spot as the most used web browser in the world. According to StatCounter, 31.88% of web traffic was generated by Chrome for a sustained period of one week and 31.47% by Internet Explorer. Though Chrome has topped Internet Explorer for single day's usage in the past, this is the first time it has led for one full week.

Google Chrome - Usage At the 2012 Google I/O developers' conference, Google claimed that there were 310 million active users of Chrome, almost double the number in 2011, which was stated as 160 million active users.

Google Chrome - Usage As of June 2013, according to StatCounter, Chrome overtook Internet Explorer for the first time in the US.

Google Chrome - Usage As of August 2013, Chrome was used by 43% of internet users worldwide. This study was done by Statista, which also noted that in North America, only 34% of people use Chrome, the lowest in the world.

Google privacy - Google Chrome
In 2008 Consumer Watchdog produced a video showing how Google Chrome

records what a user types into the URL|web address field and sends that

information to Google servers to populate search suggestions. The video includes discussion regarding the potential privacy implications of this feature.[ Consumer Watchdog Exposes Google Privacy Problems ], Digital Communities, November 5, 2008[ How Google Chrome Doesn't protect Privacy], YouTube

Google privacy - Google Chrome's incognito browsing mode
There are concerns that these limitations may lead Chrome users to believe that incognito mode provides more privacy protection than it actually does.[ Google Chrome Incognito Mode], VPN Express, August 8, 2013

Google Chrome Experiments
Launched in March 2009, Chrome Experiment is an official Google website that was originally meant to test the limits of JavaScript and the Google Chrome browser's performance and abilities

Google Chrome Experiments - History
Google's Chrome Experiment was launched in March 2009

, by July 2010 the number was over 100, and as of August 2013 the number of experiments on the site were way over 600.

The earliest projects featured on the site were mainly Visualization (computer graphics)|visualizations, interactive toys, and simple online games

Google Chrome Experiments - Major technologies used
Chrome Experiments was originally started to demonstrate the usability of JavaScript alone, but with time it has now become a platform to showcase capabilities of some other open-source web based technologies such as WebGl, HTML5, SVG, and Canvas element.

Google Chrome Experiments - JavaScript
JavaScript is a scripting language that is mainly used for creating for implementing dynamic website pages and enhanced user interfaces for web browsers

Google Chrome Experiments - JavaScript
JavaScript is the main area of focus on Chrome Experiments, thus nearly all of the experiments showcased on the site use JavaScript in some form or other.

Google Chrome Experiments - HTML5
Hyper Text Markup language or HTML is the most used markup language for displaying web pages and the backbone language for internet itself. HTML5 is the 5th revision of HTML standards. It facilitates playing of audio and video elements in the browser itself, usage of Scalable Vector Graphics, and with the help of JavaScript or CSS3 it programmers can even design animations.

Google Chrome Experiments - HTML5
All Chrome experiments are browser based, thus all have some relation to HTML, and because of new Canvas element unique to HTML5, nearly all of the paint and design tools on the site along with some games, utilize HTML5 and Canvas 2-D element.

Google Chrome Experiments - Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading style sheets (CSS) is style sheet language that is used to format the structure and look of a webpage written in markup languages such as HTML and XHTML

Google Chrome Experiments - WebGL
WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API used for rendering 3-D and 2-D graphics and animations in the web browsers itself without any additional Browser extension|plugin. The web browser should be compatible with the API. WebGL is an open source API that is based on Open Graphic Library Embedded systems

(OpenGL ES) and draws inspiration from Canvas 3-D element. WebGL is currently supported by Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, along with limited support by Safari and Opera. Internet Explorer, however, has no inbuilt support for WebGL until now but a user can view WebGL content on IE using additional browser plugins.

Utilized by more than 200 experiments out of 680, WebGL is the one of most commonly used technology on the site. The technology has also gained active use in famous and useful online apps such as Google Maps, and Zygote Body (formerly Google Body)

Google Chrome Experiments - HTML5 Audio
Web audio or HTML5 audio, is the high level JavaScript API that is used for processing and playback of audio content on the browser itself, without any additional plugins. All experiments on the Google Chrome Experiment site are designed to be interactive and attractive, thus Web-audio is an integral part of most of these projects.

Google Chrome Experiments - Mobile
In February 7, 2012, Google launched its first beta release of chrome web browser for mobiles, and on June 27, 2012 Google added a new section on the Chrome Experiment website dedicated to only mobile based applications. As of August 2013, there are 22 applications on the site. The major technologies utilized by these applications include JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.

Screenshot - Google Chrome OS
On Chromebook and related devices with the Google Chrome OS|Chrome OS keyboard layout, pressing the equivalent of on a standard keyboard will capture the entire screen, and the equivalent of will turn the mouse into a rectangle select tool for capturing a custom portion of the screen.

Chromium (web browser) - Differences from Google Chrome
Chromium is the name given to the open source project and the browser source code released and maintained by the Chromium Project.

It is possible to download the source code and build it manually on many platforms. To create Chrome from Chromium, Google takes this source code and adds:

* Built-in PDF viewer (proprietary license and code)

* An auto-update system called GoogleUpdate (some, such as Ubuntu community builds of chromium, rely on the package management system of the Operating System|OS as an alternative)

* An opt-in option for users to send Google their usage statistics and crash reports

* RLZ|RLZ tracking when Chrome is downloaded as part of marketing promotions and distribution partnerships

Google Chrome supports these as well as the patent-encumbered Advanced Audio Coding|AAC and MP3 codecs

Web Slice - Google Chrome
Google Chrome, like Firefox, does not have built in support for web slices. However, the Google Chrome Extensions|extension API new to Chrome 4 allows extensions to be created to give the ability to relatively simply create arbitrary webslices of any content from any page.

MHTML - Google Chrome Creating MHTML files in Google Chrome (Google chrome#Release history|v25+) is supported by toggling the experimental Save Page as MHTML option on the chrome://flags page, however, this replaces the original options of saving pages as HTML-only or HTML Complete files.[ How to save a web page as MHT in chrome?], superuser.com

File URI scheme - Google Chrome
use extension LocalLinkshttp://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/locallinks/jllpkdkcdjndhggodimiphkghogcpida

About URI scheme - Google Chrome-specific about: URIs
'Note:' Any “about:” URI is accepted, but only a page with a blank source is returned, as with the “about:blank” of other browsers. Similar to About: URI scheme#Safari|Safari.

About URI scheme - Google Chrome-specific about: URIs
'Note:' In Chromium (web browser)|Chromium “about:” is usually translated to a “chrome://” URL.

Digg Reader - Google Chrome
On October 9, 2013, Digg released a Google Chrome extension for Digg Reader. The extension has a rating of 4 out of 5 on the Chrome Web Store.

Google Chrome Extensions
Google Chrome Extensions are downloadable through the Chrome Web Store (formerly the Google Chrome Extensions Gallery)

Google Chrome for iOS As of July 2014, StatCounter estimates that Google Chrome has a 45% worldwide usage share of web browsers so this estimate indicates it is the most widely used web browser in the world.

Google Chrome for iOS In September 2008, Google released the majority of Chrome's source code as an Open-source software|open-source project called Chromium (web browser)|Chromium, on which Chrome releases are still based. A notable component that is not open source is the built-in Flash player.

Google Chrome for iOS - Chromium
The Google Chrome PDF viewer was previously not in Chromium, but was made open source in May 2014.

Google Chrome for iOS - Bookmarks and settings synchronisation
This can be authenticated either through Google credentials, or a sync passphrase.

Google Chrome for iOS - Web standards support
On the HTML5 test, Chrome 35 scores 507 out of 555 points, placing it first among the five most popular desktop browsers. With a score of 490 points, the Android version of Chrome 35 holds first place among the most popular seven tablet browsers and second place among the most popular seven mobile browsers.

Google Chrome for iOS - Malware blocking
Google introduced download scanning protection in Chrome 17

Google Chrome for iOS - Plugins
* On September 23, 2013 Google announced that it will be deprecating and then removing NPAPI support. NPAPI support was removed from Linux in Chrome release 35.[ Chromium Blog: Saying Goodbye to Our Old Friend NPAPI] This does mean NPAPI plugins like Java can no longer work in Chrome.[ Google Discussiegroepen]

Google Chrome for iOS - Speed
The JavaScript virtual machine used by Chrome, the V8 (JavaScript engine)|V8 JavaScript engine, has features such as just-in-time compilation|dynamic code generation, hidden class transitions, and Conservative garbage collection|precise garbage collection.

In 2008, several websites performed benchmark tests using the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark tool as well as Google's own set of computationally intense benchmarks, which include ray tracing (graphics)|ray tracing and constraint solving

Like most major web browsers, Chrome uses Domain Name System|DNS prefetching to speed up website lookups, as do other browsers like Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer (called DNS Pre-resolution), and in Opera (web browser)|Opera as a UserScript (not built-in).

Like most major web browsers, Chrome utilizes the faster SPDY protocol instead of HTTP when communicating with servers that support it, such as Google services, Facebook, Twitter, and other websites.

Google Chrome for iOS - User interface
For web developers, Chrome features an element inspector (Inspect Element), similar to the browser extension in Firebug (Firefox extension)|Firebug, which allows users to look into the DOM and see what makes up the webpage.

Google Chrome for iOS - User interface
In September, 2013, Google started making Chrome apps For your desktop. This meant offline access, desktop shortcuts, and less dependence on Chrome- They launch in a window separate from Chrome, and look more like native applications.

Google Chrome for iOS - Extensions
On September 9, 2009, Google enabled extensions by default on Chrome's developer channel, and provided several sample extensions for testing. In December, the Google Chrome extension gallery beta began with over 300 extensions.

Google Chrome for iOS - Extensions
On May 27, 2014, Google issued an update to Chrome preventing users from installing extensions obtained outside the Chrome Web Store.

Google Chrome for iOS - Automatic web page translation
Starting with Google Chrome 4.1 the application added a built-in translation bar using Google Translate. Translation is currently available for 52 languages. When Chrome detects a foreign language other than the user's preferred language as set during the installation time, it asks the user whether or not to translate.

Google Chrome for iOS - Platforms
** , support for 32-bit Macs is ending October 2014

Google Chrome for iOS - Platforms
, stable 32-bit and 64-bit builds are available for Linux and Windows, with only 32-bit stable builds available for OS X. Starting in November 7, 2013, 64-bit OS X builds were released every once in a while as canary builds. 64-bit Windows builds became available in the developer channel and as canary builds on June 3, 2014, in beta channel on July 30, 2014, and in stable channel on August 26, 2014.

Google Chrome for iOS - Windows 8 version
In June 2012, Windows 8 mode was introduced to developer channel, which enables Windows 8 users to run Chrome in a full-screen, tablet-optimized interface within the Metro (design language)|Metro shell, with access to snapping, sharing, and search functionalities. In October 2013, Windows 8 mode on developer channel changed to use a desktop environment mimicking the interface of Chrome OS with a dedicated windowing system and taskbar for web apps.

Google Chrome for iOS - Windows XP
Support for Google Chrome on Windows XP has been extended until April 2015.[ Extending Google Chrome support for Windows XP users until April 2015.]

Google Chrome for iOS - Usage
quote|Chrome's design bridges the gap between desktop and so-called cloud computing

It was reported by StatCounter, a web analytics company, that for the single day of Sunday, March 18, 2012, Chrome was the most used web browser in the world for the first time. Chrome secured 32.7% of the global web browsing on that day, while Internet Explorer followed closely behind with 32.5%.

From May 14 – 21, 2012, Google Chrome was for the first time responsible for more Internet traffic than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which long had held its spot as the most used web browser in the world. According to StatCounter, 31.88% of web traffic was generated by Chrome for a sustained period of one week and 31.47% by Internet Explorer. Though Chrome had topped Internet Explorer for single day's usage in the past, this was the first time it had led for one full week.

Google Chrome for iOS - Developing for Chrome
It is possible to develop Apps, Extensions, and Themes for Chrome. They contain a manifest file that specifies basic information (such as version, name, description, privileges, etc.), and other files for UI (icons, popups, etc.). Google even has an official developer's guide.

Google Chrome Apps 'Google Chrome Apps' are web applications that run on the Google Chrome web browser. Chrome apps can be obtained from the Chrome Web Store where apps, Google Chrome Extensions|extensions, and themes can be installed or bought. There are two types of apps, hosted and packaged, which have different locations of their executable and are targeted at different use cases.

Google Chrome Apps - Types of apps
Chrome apps can be hosted or packaged. Hosted apps have their background web pages on a remote server and the app acts like a Bookmark (World Wide Web)|bookmark or shortcut.

Google Chrome Apps - Packaged apps
Packaged apps were launched on September 5, They have features very similar to a native desktop app, namely offline capable (by default), can interact with hardware devices, and can access local storage. Packaged apps are not confined to the regular Chrome interface and can display without a classic window menu and operating system user interface elements.

Google Chrome Apps - Hosted apps
Hosted apps are the first developed types of Chrome apps. They contain a single manifest file that contains the URL and additional information about the app. Hosted apps are usually offline and are subject to regular web page security restrictions.

Google Chrome Frame 'Google Chrome Frame' was a Plug-in (computing)|plug-in designed for Internet Explorer based on the open-source Chromium (web browser)|Chromium project. It went stable in September 2010, on the first birthday of the project.[ Chromium Blog: Google Chrome Frame: Stable and Speedy] It was discontinued in February 2014 and is no longer supported.

Google Chrome Frame The plug-in works with Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7|7, Internet Explorer 8|8 and Internet Explorer 9|9. It allows suitably coded web pages to be displayed in Internet Explorer by Google Chrome’s versions of the WebKit layout engine and V8 JavaScript engine. In a test by ComputerWorld, JavaScript code ran 10 times faster with the plug-in on Internet Explorer 8.

Google Chrome Frame Development of Google Chrome Frame was required in order for Google Wave (now Apache Wave), which requires HTML5, to function in Internet Explorer.

Google Chrome Frame The first stable version supporting Non-Admin Chrome Frame was rolled out on August 30, The new Chrome Frame installer will now run at Admin level by default and will fall back to Non-Admin mode if the user does not have the necessary permissions on their machine.[ Chromium Blog: Non-Admin Chrome Frame Reaches Stable Channel]

Google Chrome Frame - Deployment
Web developers can allow their websites to use the plug-in by using the following code on their web pages:

This will cause the page to render in Chrome Frame for users who have it installed, without changing it for users who have not.

In February 2010, Google Chrome Frame was updated to also support deployment by HTTP headers, with a number of advantages, such as simplified sitewide support and support of the application/xhtml+xml MIME type even on Internet Explorer which normally does not support this MIME type for XHTML documents. For a blanket rollout on an entire web site, an Apache server with mod_headers and mod_setenvif enabled can specify a header directive like this:

Header append X-UA-Compatible chrome=1 env=gcf

With Google Chrome Frame installed, users can add the gcf: prefix to URLs to render them with WebKit and V8 instead of Internet Explorer’s built-in Trident (layout engine)|Trident engine after enabling this feature via a registry setting

Google Chrome Frame communicates with Google’s servers; it reports installation to Google, downloads updates to Chrome Frame and Google’s Safe Browsing list, and at the user’s option can send Google usage statistics and crash reports.

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