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Google Chrome
Google Chrome launched in September 2008, built on the open-source Chromium project and Google's own V8 JavaScript engine, which was specifically designed to execute JavaScript significantly faster than the engines used by rival browsers at the time. Chrome's multi-process architecture, running each tab as a separate process rather than a single shared process, was a genuinely novel design choice for a mainstream browser in 2008, meaning a crash in one tab wouldn't take down the entire browser window. Chrome grew to become the dominant web browser worldwide by market share within a few years of launch, and its open-source Chromium engine has since become the foundation for numerous other browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Brave. Google Chrome's combination of its pioneering multi-process tab architecture and its Chromium engine becoming the foundation for much of the modern browser market has made it one of the most influential pieces of software of the internet era.
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Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Edge launched in July 2015 alongside Windows 10, originally built on Microsoft's own proprietary EdgeHTML rendering engine as a replacement for the aging Internet Explorer, before Microsoft made the significant decision in 2020 to rebuild Edge entirely on Google's open-source Chromium engine. The switch to Chromium was a notable strategic reversal for Microsoft, which had maintained its own independent browser engine for decades, and the move let Edge gain broad compatibility with Chrome extensions and web standards essentially overnight. Edge ships as the default pre-installed browser on every Windows PC, giving it guaranteed distribution to hundreds of millions of Windows users, and Microsoft has since built additional features directly into Edge, including built-in Copilot AI assistant integration. Microsoft Edge's combination of its unusual mid-life rebuild onto Google's Chromium engine and its guaranteed default status on every Windows PC has made it one of the more strategically distinctive browsers in the modern market.
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