Chromium (web browser) interface because Google wanted it to "feel lightweight (cognitively and physically) and fast". Chromium is the name given to the open-source project and the browser source code released and maintained by the Chromium Project, which is headed by Google developers, with input from community developers. It is possible to download the source code and build it manually on many platforms. There are third-party efforts to separate Chromium and Google for privacy reasons. In comparison to Chromium, Google Chrome: The Google-authored portion of Chromium is released under the BSD license, with other parts being subject to a variety of different open-source
History of the web browser Line Mode Browser a cross-platform web browser that displayed web-pages on old terminals and was released in May 1991. In 1992, Tony Johnson released the MidasWWW browser. Based on Motif/X, MidasWWW allowed viewing of PostScript files on the Web from Unix and VMS, and even handled compressed PostScript. Another early popular Web browser was ViolaWWW, which was modeled after HyperCard. In the same year the Lynx browser was announced – the only one of these early projects still being maintained and supported today. Erwise was the first browser with a graphical user interface, developed as a student project at Helsinki