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Google Chrome is a web browser released by Google which 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.
In August 2009, Chrome was the fourth most widely used browser, with 2.59% of worldwide usage share of web browsers. Development versions of Chrome for Linux and Mac OS X were released in June 2009.
Google released the entire source code of Chrome, including its bespoke V8 JavaScript engine as an open source project entitled Chromium, in 2008. This move enabled third-party developers to port the browser to the Linux and Mac OS X platforms, apart from being able to study the underlying source code.
A Google spokesperson also expressed hope that other browsers will adopt V8 to help web applications. The Google-authored portion of Chromium is released under the permissive BSD license, which allows portions to be incorporated into both open source and proprietary software programs.
Other portions of the source code are subject to a variety of different open-source licenses Chromium implements the same feature set as Chrome, but has a slightly different logo.
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