Which browser did Google first release in 2008?

Which browser did Google first release in 2008? Google Chrome. Google publicly released Chrome as a beta browser on September 2, 2008, initially for Windows XP and later versions. It was Google’s first major entry into the web-browser market, arriving during an era dominated by Internet Explorer and competing with Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Safari.

Chrome was built from several open-source components, including Apple’s WebKit rendering engine and Mozilla-related software. Google also introduced the V8 JavaScript engine, designed to execute web scripts quickly. The browser’s name referred partly to “chrome,” the interface elements surrounding a webpage; minimizing that interface was one of the project’s design goals.

A common mix-up concerns the release date. September 2 marks the first public beta release, while the first stable version appeared on December 11, 2008. Chrome later expanded to macOS and Linux, and its Chromium project became the open-source foundation for many other browsers. Google’s operating system, ChromeOS, also uses Chrome as its central browser and application platform.