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
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