Google Chrome is a freeware web browser[7] developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine as of its latest stable release.[note 2] It was released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and as a stable public release on December 11, 2008. As of April 2013, according to StatCounter, Google Chrome has a 39% worldwideusage share of web browsers making it the most widely used web browser in the world.[11] Net Applications, however, indicates that Chrome is only third when it comes to the size of its user base, behind Internet Explorer and Firefox.[12]
In September 2008, Google released the majority of Chrome's source code as an open source project calledChromium,[13][14] on which Chrome releases are still based.
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