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Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKitlayout engine. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008. As of January 2012, Google Chrome has approximately 25–28% worldwide usage share of web browsers, making it the second or the third most widely used browser, according to different estimates.^[1][2][3][4] According to StatCounter,^[2] Chrome overtook Firefox in November 2011, and is the most popular browser in India,^[5] Pakistan,^[6] Russia,^[7] andSouth America.^[8] As of March 2012, Chrome is 3.8% of market share away from overtaking Internet Explorer in worldwide market share.^[9]

In September 2008, Google released a large portion of Chrome's source code as anopen source project called Chromium.^[10][11] This move enabled third-party developers to study the underlying source code and to help port the browser to the Mac OS X andLinux operating systems. Google also expressed hope that other browsers would adopt the V8 JavaScript engine to improve web application performance.^[12] The Google-authored portion of Chromium is released under the permissive BSD license,^[13] Other portions of the source code are subject to a variety of open source licenses.^[14]Chromium implements a similar feature set as Chrome, but lacks built-in automatic updates, built-in PDF reader and Google branding, as well as built-in Google tracking and has a blue-colored logo instead of the multicolored Google logo.^[15][16]

On February 7, 2012, Google launched Google Chrome Beta for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) devices.^[17]

In March 2012 Google announced it was working on a version of Chrome for both theMetro and desktop versions of Windows 8.^[18]