The first phase of the plan is to disable Flash for ads and background analytics, with the ultimate goal of disabling it completely by the end of the year, except on specific sites that Google has deemed to be broken without it.

It was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, and was later ported to Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android where it is the default browser built into the OS.

The browser is also the main component of Chrome OS, where it serves as the platform for web applications.

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, Schmidt said that It was so good that it essentially forced me to change my mind.

Online journals and U.S.

Google was hiring former Microsoft web developers among others.

It also came shortly after the final 1.0 release of Mozilla Firefox, which was surging in popularity and taking market share from Internet Explorer, which was suffering from major security problems.

Development of the browser was led by Sundar Pichai.

Google kept the development project name as the final release name, as a cheeky or ironic moniker, as one of the main aims was to minimize the user interface chrome.

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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.

According to Google, existing implementations were designed for small programs, where the performance and interactivity of the system werent that important, but web applications such as Gmail are using the web browser to the fullest when it comes to DOM manipulations and JavaScript, and therefore would significantly benefit from a JavaScript engine that could work faster.

In 2013, they forked the WebCore component to create their own layout engine Blink.

Based on WebKit, Blink only uses WebKits WebCore components, while substituting other components, such as its own multi-process architecture, in place of WebKits native implementation.

Chrome is internally tested with unit testing, automated testing of scripted user actions, fuzz testing, as well as WebKits layout tests (99 of which Chrome is claimed to have passed), and against commonly accessed websites inside the Google index within 2030 minutes.

Google created Gears for Chrome, which added features for web developers typically relating to the building of web applications, including offline support.

Google phased out Gears as the same functionality became available in the HTML5 standards.

For example, the merging of the address bar and search bar into the omnibox.

Chrome also has a reputation for strong browser performance.

This can be authenticated either through Google credentials, or a sync passphrase.

Beginning with version 4.0, Chrome has passed all aspects of the Acid3 test.

In this test, Chrome version 37 scored 10 failed11,578 passed.

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This service is also made available for use by others via a free public API called Google Safe Browsing API.

The Sandbox Team is said to have taken this existing process boundary and made it into a jail.

This enforces a computer security model whereby there are two levels of multilevel security ( user and sandbox ) and the sandbox can only respond to communication requests initiated by the user.

On Linux sandboxing uses the seccomp mode.

In addition, Google also announced its plan to crack down websites that make people involuntarily subscribe to mobile subscription plans.

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.

As of February 2014 update, Google Chrome asks the user to enter the Windows account password before showing saved passwords.

Because of this, when either GNOME Keyring or KWallet is in use, any unencrypted passwords that have been stored previously are automatically moved into the encrypted store.

For example, the 2016 Pwn2Own successful attack on Chrome relied on four security vulnerabilities.

Two of the vulnerabilities were in Flash, one was in Chrome, and one was in the Windows kernel.

In 2016, Google announced that it was planning to phase out Flash Player in Chrome, starting in version 53.

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