Google Chrome accounts for 62 percent of web usage, according to analytics firm StatCounter. Now, 10 years after its public launch, Chrome dominates the web, in part because it's the default browser on hundreds of millions of Android Microsoft launched Edge three years ago, trying for a fresh start after years of watching its once-dominant "Web developers will have a less-fragmented web platform to test their sites against, ensuring that there are fewer problems and increased satisfaction for users of their sites." (and potentially other browsers) will experience improved compatibility with all web sites, while getting the best-possible battery life and hardware integration on all kinds of Windows devices." Joe Belfiore, Microsoft's corporate vice president for Windows, said in the blog post. Microsoft, though, joins Opera in its decision to cede control over the software. Safari, which once shared the same core software as Chrome, remain independent. Microsoft's move also means there's one less independent player setting web standards and improving core browser technology. At the heart of Chromium is an engine called Blink that handles the browser's core work of digesting website programming instructions and presenting the pages to us. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chromium, the foundation of Chrome, is an open-source project which anybody is free to copy, use and contribute to - though there's no guarantee Google will incorporate those changes into its own browser.
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