Google Chrome

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Google Chrome is a web browser made by Google, sometimes particularly used in IndieWebCamp demos to project using a Chromecast on the venue's display.

Chrome uses the Blink rendering engine and the open source components are released as Chromium. Many other browsers are built on Chromium.

IndieWeb Examples

• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Downtime

On 2017-02-17, Google Chrome was (perhaps briefly?) unavailable for download from Google's servers:

Chromium

Chromium is the name for the open source version of Chrome.

Many other browsers are based on Chromium.

• Microsoft Edge
• Brave
• Vivaldi
• Opera

Criticism

• 2026-05-07 Matthias Ott: Lazy and Prompt
• 2026-05-06 Mat Marquis: Google’s Prompt API
• 2026-05-04 Alexander Hanff: Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
• 2025-08-30 Jarema: Anything But Chrome (archived)

See Also

• Google
• monoculture