Google Chrome? What is it?
If you haven’t heard of it yet, Google Chrome is a web browser built by Google, based on the open-source Chromium project. This post dates back to Chrome’s earliest days, when only a Windows version had shipped and Mac and Linux builds were still in the works — Chrome has, of course, long since expanded to every major platform.
I’ve always run a lot of different browsers, and comparing them got me curious enough about Chrome to start digging in. This blog grew out of that curiosity — the research, the testing, and everything else I learned about Chrome along the way.
At the time, Chrome was my browser of choice for personal use, though I still leaned on Firefox at work for extensions Chrome didn’t support yet. Why the split? I’ll get into that here.
Whether you’re brand new to Chrome or you’ve been using it for years, stick around — we dig into the details and share better ways to browse with it.