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 business model, unlike the business model of 1990s Netscape, primarily consists of doing deals with search engines such as Google to direct users towards them – see Web browser#Business models. In 2003, Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer would no longer be made available as a separate product but would be part of the evolution of its Windows platform, and that no more releases for the Macintosh would be made. AOL announced that it would retire support and development of the Netscape web browser in February 2008. In the second half of 2004, Internet Explorer reached a peak market share of