Are you an Indian? If you hail from this country and are an internet savvy individual, it’s the time for you to avail yourself of Google Chrome. Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google and based on the WebKit layout engine and application framework. 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.
What makes this reporter advise an Indian to do the same? Well, Google Chrome, at the moment, is being offered in many Indian languages, with version 2 of the browser made available for download. It is to be noted that there was a Hindi version from almost the beginning and the latest initiative include Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya (on Windows Vista alone), Tamil, and Telugu.
Speaking on this, a Google spokesperson said: “Creation and consumption of Indian language content on the web is a relatively recent phenomenon. In some cases, the fonts get installed by default, and if not, Google tries to provide installation or downloading option through all our products.”
You can get best picture if you care to gauge how Google has conceived the browser. It was “not just a browser but also a modern platform for web pages and applications.” As per experts, the browser is based on open source software. It has been developed with Webkit, an open source browser engine, which was originally deployed for the Safari browser. The rendering of Javascript, a scripting language widely used in the Web environment, was also speeded up, Google said.
