04 Jun 08 What is Google Chrome Built On?

For those of you who have been wondering why Google named Chrome, I was wrong that it had anything to do with Firefox but I did find out that Google uses the same open-source WebKit used by Safari browser used on Macs and iPhones.

WebKit is basically an open-source browser you can download and build a browser yourself.  (using a compiler of course)

Now, for anyone to make the current version of Google Chrome from the WebKit, you can’t because there’s no download page for Google Chrome’s open-source packages yet.  (Yes, it’s open-source but it’s not open-source until you can actually download the source code)

I am sure Google is needs time for beta testing before they provide the public with open-source of Google Chrome but I am too eager to wait.

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Happy Chrome-ing! Tags:beta testing, blog, breaking news, Chrome Rumors, current version, download page, firefox, google, iphones, macs, open source packages, safari, source browser, source code

30 Jun 99 Chrome Officially Coming to Macs Soon!

Here’s some good news that Chrome will be coming to Macs soon “officially”!

Pinkerton told Ars that Chrome’s integration with OS X goes deep. When designing Chrome, it was Pinkerton’s role to make sure that the application’s architecture would not exclude what the browser needed to do on any of its target platforms, while at the same time leveraging as many native capabilities as possible. “We wanted to do as much as possible to work with native services, from threading and the Mach layer through working with the native keychain and with PDFkit. We wanted it to feel like a real Macintosh application, from using stored passwords and the address book to Spotlight.”

via artstechnica Tags:application, Ars, artstechnica, chrome, Chrome Rumors, Macintosh, macs, PDFkit, Pinkerton