Google Chrome was first announced 10 years ago today

Chrome is easily one of the most important products Google has ever released. It started an evolutionary shift for web browsers by introducing sandboxing and rapid release schedules. Fast forward to today, and Chrome is the world's most popular web browser and serves as the operating system for a rapidly-growing ecosystem of laptops. Today marks the 10th anniversary of Google Chrome's initial announcement.

Google Chrome 3.0 running on Linux (source)

On September 1st, 2008, Google published a blog post announcing "a fresh take on the browser." It explained that the company wanted to develop a browser designed specifically for complex web applications, complete with operating system-like sandboxing:

We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser.

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