Themes and extensions, along with Chrome’s incredible speed thanks to sandboxing, were poised to make even bigger gains in 2010. While that number seems small, keep in mind this was a brand new product, fighting for competition in an established market. Customization is a deeply personal thing and people embraced the idea of personalizing their browser’s appearance and functionality.Īt the end of 2009, Chrome already had 5% market share. In just over a year’s time, the extensions gallery had over 10,000 extensions and themes.
Users and developers alike loved extensions. This was the big turning point, where Google hoped to convince users that apps were the future of web browsing. Extensions were revolutionary at the time. In December 2009, Google launched the extensions gallery. While Chrome OS and the growing user base were huge news, they weren’t the biggest Chrome story of 2009. A user base of 30 million in less than a year is pretty incredible, certainly something not seen before in the browser wars. In July 2009, there were over 30 million people using Google’s new browser. At the same time, users were converting to Chrome more and more. That summer, Google announced they were building an entire operating system based on Chrome, aptly named ‘Chrome OS’.
2009: Chrome OS and extensionsīy 2009, it was clear that Chrome was a big deal. Google knew they’d need developers on board to speed up improvements to Chrome, as well as create for their upcoming extensions gallery. Not only was open-source in vogue at the time, it also garnered developer interest in Chrome as a project. With this in mind, Google took the next huge step in seizing the browser space - in September 2008, the open-source Chromium Project launched. Indeed, sandboxing separate tabs was a move that looked forward to the future of the web, where apps would replace webpages as the primary tool for users. Sandboxing meant that if one tab crashed, the entire session didn’t go down with it. Browser crashing was a fairly common thing, especially on Internet Explorer. Perhaps the biggest unique advantage for Chrome early on was the sandboxing of separate browser tabs. People didn’t use the internet for just accessing research articles for school anymore, the web was a big place with content to consume. In their minds, the browser experience was completely broken. The comic itself is quite lengthy at 39 pages, but the first page gives a pretty good synopsis of Google’s philosophy. At the time the beta launched, Google made a comic to explain why they created a new browser in a sea of existing alternatives. Already looking to the future, Google developed Chrome on top of the HTML layout engine, WebKit, which would support web apps like their popular Maps service. Smartphones were fairly new and apps weren’t really a big deal in 2008. This was a very interesting time in tech. Google launched the Chrome browser in beta on September 2nd, 2008.
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There were three key contributing factors - the open-source nature of Chromium, revolutionizing web browsing with extensions, and the rise of Android and Chromebooks. In this article, we’ll take a look at how Google skyrocketed Chrome to the top from 2008 to 2012. These aspirations pushed Google to innovate in several key ways, eventually breaking through with the largest browser market share in 2012. In the beginning, Chrome set out to be an entire platform for exploring the web in a new way, not just a browser. In fact, Internet Explorer worked the same in 2008 as it did in 1998. When Google came on the scene, Microsoft hadn’t really thought much about reinventing the browser experience. Google used a few existing tools to create Chrome, but for the most part, their approach to a browser was completely new. Microsoft, along with Mozilla and others, were continuing to build their browsers on legacy code. Mostly they did it starting from scratch. So, how did Google accomplish this unbelievable feat in such a short time? You could even say Chrome killed Internet Explorer. Today, Chrome is by far the most popular browser in the world on both desktop and mobile. In just over 13 years, Google’s Chrome browser has risen from a new project to the behemoth we know today.
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