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Android Runtime for Chrome (ARC) is a compatibility layer and sandboxing technology for running Android applications on desktop and laptop computers in an isolated environment. It allows applications to be safely run from a web browser , independent of user operating system, at near-native speeds.
Chrome Web Store was publicly unveiled in December 2010, [2] and was opened on February 11, 2011, with the release of Google Chrome 9.0. [3] A year later it was redesigned to "catalyze a big increase in traffic, across downloads, users, and total number of apps". [4]
Most of Chrome's source code comes from Google's free and open-source software project Chromium, but Chrome is licensed as proprietary freeware. [14] WebKit was the original rendering engine , but Google eventually forked it to create the Blink engine; [ 17 ] all Chrome variants except iOS used Blink as of 2017.
A browser extension is a software module for customizing a web browser.Browsers typically allow users to install a variety of extensions, including user interface modifications, cookie management, ad blocking, and the custom scripting and styling of web pages.
Google Chrome Apps, or commonly just Chrome Apps, were a certain type of non-standardized web application that ran on the Google Chrome web browser. Chrome apps could be obtained from the Chrome Web Store along with various free and paid apps, extensions , and themes.
In computing, a plug-in (or plugin, add-in, addin, add-on, or addon) is a software component that extends the functionality of an existing software system without requiring the system to be re-built. A plug-in feature is one way that a system can be customizable. [1] Applications support plug-ins for a variety of reasons including:
AdBlock is an ad-blocking browser extension for Google Chrome, Apple Safari (desktop and mobile), Firefox, Samsung Internet, Microsoft Edge and Opera. [4] [5] AdBlock allows users to prevent page elements, such as advertisements, from being displayed. It is free to download and use, and it includes optional donations to the developers. [6]
Pepper Plugin API, or PPAPI [28] [29] is a cross-platform API for Native Client-secured web browser plugins, first based on Netscape's NPAPI, then rewritten from scratch. It was used in Chromium and Google Chrome to enable the PPAPI version of Adobe Flash [ 30 ] and the built-in PDF viewer.