[google-chrome] is for questions related to development with Google Chrome, a web browser that uses the Blink rendering engine. Warning! General support for the browser is off-topic: questions about using or configuring the browser should be posted on https://superuser.com. Chrome OS and Chromium are off-topic: questions about [google-chrome-os] or [chromium] should use those tags.
Google Chrome is a free desktop browser that uses the Blink rendering engine (a fork of WebKit) and V8 JavaScript engine. It was launched in 2008 with a goal of making the web faster.
Tag alert! General usage questions about Chrome should be asked on Super User.
The tags below should be used on questions about development in the following areas:
• google-chrome-app for Packaged Apps development in Chrome/Chromium
• google-chrome-extension for extension development in Chrome/Chromium
• google-chrome-devtools for DevTools in Chrome/Chromium
Most of Chrome's source code is released as part of the open-source sister project Chromium. It was assembled from 25 different code libraries from Google and third parties such as Mozilla's Netscape Portable Runtime, Network Security Services, as well as sqlite and a number of other open-source projects.
google-chrome is available in 53 languages and was first publicly released for Microsoft Windows (XP and later versions) on September 2, 2008, in 43 languages, officially a beta version.
Platforms
Chrome is available for:
- Windows: Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
(Windows XP is no longer supported: Chrome 49 is the last compatible version) - OS X: 10.6 or later
- Linux: Ubuntu 12.04 or later / Debian 7 or later / openSUSE 12.2 or later / Fedora 17 or later
- iOS 7.0 or later (iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad)
- Android 4.0 or later
- Google TV
