2008
Eich says Google Chrome was released on September 1, 2008.
“Chrome came out in September 1st, 2008.”
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Google Chrome
7 facts from 3 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2008
A host says Chrome's early distinguishing feature was process isolation, so a crashing Flash tab would not take down the whole browser.
“It was more about isolating the Flash player so that when it crashes in a tab, it doesn't drag your whole browser down.”
2008
Google launched the Chrome browser in early September 2008, about a week before Lehman Brothers collapsed.
“They launch it in early September of 2008, like a week before Lehman goes down.”
2008
Chrome included a fast JavaScript engine called V8 to run large web applications quickly and reliably.
“Okay, great. Number one, most important, it is going to have a super fast, super modern, super performant JavaScript virtual machine called V8.”
2008
When Chrome launched in 2008, Internet Explorer had almost 70% of the browser market and Firefox had most of the rest.
“When Chrome launched in 2008, Internet Explorer had almost 70% market share of browsers, and Firefox had most of the rest.”
2018
Eich says that in September 2018 Google began signing users into Chrome automatically when they signed into Gmail or YouTube.
“in 2018, September, Google said, gosh darn it, people aren't signing into the browser enough.”
Undated
To align text on a sub-pixel grid, Superhuman reverse engineered Chrome's font layout engine and built its own layout framework in CSS.
“We dove into the Chrome source code, reverse engineered the font layout engine, and then built our own layout framework, actually entirely in CSS, because we wanted this thing to be super fast as well.”
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