Google's Chrome celebrates its third birthday

BANGALORE, INDIA: Open source based web browser, Google Chrome recently celebrated its third anniversary of the launch.

Google, which debuted its Chrome browser on September 1, 2008 has so far gained around 22 per cent browser market share according to a report from Statcounter.

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"It's hard to believe that it's already been three years since we launched our open source web browser, Chrome," said Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher, Software Engineers from Google in a blog post.

To pay homage to the goodness of the web, Google also published an interactive interactive infographic , built in HTML5, which details the evolution of major web technologies and browsers.

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Googger and Fisher further added that, "In our third year, we’ve also brought Chrome's principles of speed, simplicity and security to a new model of computing: the Chromebook."

"The Chromebook is pure Chrome - a computer built for everything you ever need to do on the web while doing away with all the usual annoyances of an old, slow PC," they added.

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Some of the milestone, where Google Chrome achived in the last three years includes:

* Google kicked off the Year of the Rabbit with a new compilation infrastructure for the V8 JavaScript engine, codenamed "Crankshaft," which improved JavaScript performance by up to 66 percent.

* Chrome's built-in prerendering technology enables sites to build faster experiences for their users - such as Instant Pages in Google search

* Chrome supports screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver to help visually impaired people better experience the web.

* To provide greater transparency and control over the data that websites store on your computers, Chrome allows users to delete Local Shared Objects created by Adobe Flash Player using the browser's built-in setting dialogs.

* The Chrome Web Store is an open marketplace where users can search for and discover web applications, both free and paid, along with ratings and reviews. Developers can add in-app payments to their apps for a flat 5 percent transaction fee.

* Chrome supports WebGL, which brings hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the browser with no additional software needed.

* Chrome's support for the HTML speech input API enables developers to give web apps the ability to transcribe your voice into text.