Google Chrome is a free web browser developed by Google, released in 2008.
When Google decided to make a browser, they wanted to completely rethink the browser, as browsing now is very different from browsing simple text pages. Now we email, shop, pay bills, and run large application in our browsers.
Google Chrome is the world's most used browser today: Download Chrome.
The following figures are extracted from our Browser Statistics:
2014 | Total | C 40 | C 39 | C 38 | C 37 | C 36 | C 35 | C 34 | C 33 | C 32 | C 31 | Older |
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December | 61.6% | 0.6% | 52.0% | 3.0% | 1.3% | 0.7% | 0.8% | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 1.3% |
November | 60.1% | 0.5% | 13.2% | 37.8% | 2.1% | 1.6% | 0.9% | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.2% | 0.4% | 2.2% |
October | 60.4% | 0.5% | 0.6% | 24.6% | 27.4% | 2.1% | 1.2% | 0.7% | 0.8% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 1.8% |
September | 59.6% | 0.7% | 0.6% | 43.6% | 8.3% | 1.9% | 0.8% | 1.0% | 0.3% | 0.6% | 1.8% | |
August | 60.1% | 0.6% | 2.3% | 49.5% | 3.0% | 1.1% | 1.1% | 0.4% | 0.5% | 1.6% | ||
July | 59.8% | 0.5% | 19.2% | 34.0% | 1.7% | 1.1% | 0.5% | 0.6% | 2.2% | |||
June | 59.3% | 0.5% | 49.9% | 2.9% | 1.4% | 0.6% | 0.7% | 3.3% | ||||
May | 59.2% | 12.8% | 40.5% | 1.8% | 0.8% | 0.8% | 2.5% | |||||
April | 58.4% | 31.7% | 21.4% | 1.0% | 0.9% | 3.4% | ||||||
March | 57.5% | 0.8% | 49.8% | 2.2% | 1.3% | 3.4% | ||||||
February | 56.4% | 0.4% | 12.2% | 33.3% | 2.0% | 8.5% | ||||||
January | 55.7% | 26.4% | 24.5% | 4.8% | ||||||||
2013 | Total | C 32 | C 31 | C 30 | C 29 | C 28 | C 27 | C 26 | C 25 | C 24 | C 23 | Older |
December | 55.8% | 1.0% | 49.0% | 1.6% | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.6% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.2% |
November | 54.8% | 0.5% | 26.3% | 23.7% | 1.1% | 1.0% | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.5% |
October | 54.1% | 0.2% | 0.5% | 39.8% | 8.3% | 1.9% | 0.7% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 1.5% |
September | 53.2% | 0.6% | 46.0% | 3.2% | 1.0% | 0.5% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 1.1% | ||
August | 52.9% | 0.5% | 11.1% | 36.5% | 1.9% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 1.1% | ||
July | 52.8% | 0.2% | 0.5% | 30.3% | 18.3% | 0.8% | 0.6% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 1.5% | ||
June | 52.1% | 0.4% | 1.5% | 45.3% | 1.7% | 1.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 1.4% | |||
May | 52.9% | 0.5% | 10.0% | 38.4% | 1.4% | 0.5% | 0.4% | 1.7% | ||||
April | 52.7% | 0.3% | 0.7% | 45.8% | 2.9% | 0.7% | 0.6% | 1.7% | ||||
March | 51.7% | 0.4% | 2.1% | 44.2% | 2.1% | 0.8% | 2.1% | |||||
February | 50.0% | 7.7% | 37.8% | 1.4% | 3.1% | |||||||
January | 48.4% | 0.7% | 26.5% | 17.7% | 3.5% | |||||||
2012 | Total | C 25 | C 24 | C 23 | C 22 | C 21 | C 20 | C 19 | C 18 | C 17 | C 16 | Older |
December | 46.9% | 0.4% | 0.7% | 41.7% | 1.1% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 1.0% |
November | 46.3% | 0.3% | 0.6% | 30.3% | 10.7% | 1.1% | 0.7% | 0.4% | 0.7% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
October | 44.9% | 0.3% | 0.7% | 38.2% | 1.8% | 0.9% | 0.5% | 0.8% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 1.0% | |
September | 44.1% | 0.4% | 4.1% | 35.2% | 0.9% | 0.6% | 1.0% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 1.2% | ||
August | 43.7% | 0.1% | 0.5% | 34.7% | 4.2% | 0.9% | 1.2% | 0.5% | 0.3% | 1.3% | ||
July | 42.9% | 0.3% | 0.7% | 35.4% | 2.7% | 1.3% | 0.6% | 0.4% | 1.5% | |||
June | 41.7% | 0.4% | 1.6% | 35.4% | 1.5% | 0.7% | 0.4% | 1.7% | ||||
May | 39.3% | 0.1% | 0.5% | 15.8% | 19.8% | 0.9% | 0.5% | 1.7% | ||||
April | 38.3% | 0.3% | 0.9% | 31.3% | 3.4% | 0.6% | 1.8% | |||||
March | 37.3% | 0.6% | 1.5% | 31.9% | 1.0% | 2.3% | ||||||
February | 36.3% | 0.3% | 0.9% | 17.1% | 15.3% | 2.7% | ||||||
January | 35.3% | 0.3% | 1.1% | 30.5% | 3.4% | |||||||
2011 | Total | C 17 | C 16 | C 15 | C 14 | C 13 | C 12 | C 11 | C 10 | C 9 | C 8 | Older |
December | 34.6% | 0.7% | 13.4% | 17.8% | 0.9% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.4% |
November | 33.4% | 0.4% | 1.0% | 28.1% | 1.6% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.7% |
October | 32.3% | 0.5% | 3.3% | 25.5% | 0.9% | 0.8% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.5% | |
September | 30.5% | 0.7% | 11.2% | 16.0% | 1.1% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.7% | ||
August | 30.3% | 0.3% | 1.0% | 21.2% | 6.0% | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.7% | ||
July | 29.4% | 0.7% | 1.2% | 25.3% | 0.7% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.7% | |||
June | 27.9% | 0.2% | 0.8% | 17.3% | 7.6% | 0.8% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.8% | |||
May | 25.9% | 0.3% | 1.1% | 21.0% | 2.2% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.7% | ||||
April | 25.6% | 0.6% | 1.9% | 21.3% | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.8% | |||||
March | 25.0% | 0.1% | 0.8% | 14.8% | 7.7% | 0.6% | 1.0% | |||||
February | 24.1% | 0.2% | 0.9% | 17.0% | 4.8% | 1.2% | ||||||
January | 23.8% | 0.7% | 1.3% | 20.4% | 1.4% | |||||||
2010 | Total | C 9 | C 8 | C 7 | C 6 | C 5 | C 4 | Older | ||||
December | 22.4% | 1.2% | 16.6% | 3.5% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.1% | ||||
November | 20.5% | 0.6% | 0.9% | 17.7% | 0.7% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.0% | ||||
October | 19.2% | 0.3% | 5.6% | 12.3% | 0.6% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||||
September | 17.3% | 0.6% | 11.4% | 4.9% | 0.3% | 0.1% | ||||||
August | 17.0% | 0.1% | 1.3% | 15.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | ||||||
July | 16.7% | 0.8% | 15.3% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||||||
June | 15.9% | 0.7% | 13.9% | 1.1% | 0.2% | |||||||
May | 14.5% | 0.3% | 3.4% | 10.6% | 0.2% | |||||||
April | 13.6% | 2.5% | 10.8% | 0.3% | ||||||||
March | 12.3% | 1.7% | 10.4% | 0.2% | ||||||||
February | 11.6% | 1.0% | 10.0% | 0.6% | ||||||||
January | 10.8% | 2.8% | 8.0% | |||||||||
2009 | Total | C 4 | C 3 | C 2 | C 1 | |||||||
December | 9.8% | 1.9% | 7.7% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||||||
November | 8.5% | 1.1% | 7.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||||||
October | 8.0% | 0.5% | 7.0% | 0.4% | 0.1% | |||||||
September | 7.1% | 0.4% | 2.7% | 3.9% | 0.1% | |||||||
August | 7.0% | 0.8% | 6.1% | 0.1% | ||||||||
July | 6.5% | 0.3% | 6.0% | 0.2% | ||||||||
June | 6.0% | 0.2% | 4.6% | 1.2% | ||||||||
May | 5.5% | 0.8% | 4.6% | |||||||||
April | 4.9% | 0.4% | 4.4% | |||||||||
March | 4.2% | 0.2% | 3.9% | |||||||||
February | 4.0% | 0.1% | 3.8% | |||||||||
January | 3.9% | 0.1% | 3.7% | |||||||||
2008 | Total | C 1 | Beta | |||||||||
December | 3.6% | 1.6% | 2.0% | |||||||||
November | 3.1% | 3.1% | ||||||||||
October | 3.0% | 3.0% | ||||||||||
September | 3.1% | 3.1% |
These statistics are based on W3Schools' users.
Google has made a comic on how they made the Google Chrome browser:
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
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FIRST STABLE RELEASE!
It took Google 100 days from the release of the Beta version to the full version. In these 100 days, Google improved the browser, and listened to requests from the users.
Chrome's first Beta 1 was released on September 2, 2008.