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 browser can also be defined as an application software or program designed to enable users to access, retrieve and view documents and other resources on the Internet. Precursors to the web browser emerged in the form of hyperlinked applications during the mid and late 1980s, and following these, Tim Berners-Lee is credited with developing in 1990 both the first web server, and the first web browser, called WorldWideWeb (no spaces) and later renamed Nexus. Many others were soon developed, with Marc Andreessen's 1993 Mosaic (later Netscape), being particularly easy to use and install, and often credited with sparking the internet