The release announcement was originally scheduled for September 3, 2008, and a comic by Scott McCloud was to be sent to journalists and bloggers explaining the features within the new browser. However, after co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page hired several Mozilla Firefox developers and built a demonstration of Chrome, Schmidt admitted that 'It was so good that it essentially forced me to change my mind'.

He stated that 'at the time, Google was a small company', and he did not want to go through 'bruising browser wars'.

Historyįor six years, Google's Chief Executive Eric Schmidt opposed the development of an independent web browser. In September 2008, Google released a large portion of Chrome's source code as an open source project called Chromium which Chrome releases continue to be based on. As of June 2012, Google Chrome has 32.76% worldwide usage share of web browsers, making it the most widely used web browser, according to StatCounter. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008.

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