Chromium (web browser) Chromium (web browser) Chromium is an open-source web browser project started by Google. It provides the core codebase for Google Chrome and many other browsers. While Chrome shares the majority of code and features with Chromium, there are some differences. The Chromium Project takes its name from the element chromium, the metal from which chrome plating is made. Google's intention was that Chromium would be the name of the open-source development project and that the final product's name would be Chrome; however, other developers build the Chromium code and release it with the Chromium name. Chromium has a minimalist user
SlipKnot (web browser) Brooks set out in April 1994 to create a fully graphic, multifont web browser for home PC users. SlipKnot version 1.0 was completed and released as shareware in November 1994, thus making it the first purchasable browser on the market. Its name is a play on the term slip knot (a type of knot) against SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol) -- an early version of TCP/IP over modem lines—and not after the fact that, unlike Mosaic and Netscape browser offerings, a SLIP connection was not necessary to view graphical web content. SlipKnot was given the Best Communications Shareware Program of