
This service is also made available for use by others via a free public API called "Google Safe Browsing API". Design Security Blacklists Chrome downloads updates of two blacklists (one for phishing and one for malware) and warns users when they try to visit a harmful site. As of September 2, 2008, Google has a link to Google Chrome on their main page.

Google then made the comic available on Google Books and their website and referenced it on its official blog along with an explanation for the early release. Copies that were for Europe were shipped early and German blogger Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped made a scanned copy of the 38-page comic available on his website after receiving it on 1 September 2008.

The release announcement was going to be made on 3 September 2008, and a comic by Scott McCloud was to be sent to journalists and bloggers explaining the features of and reasons for the new browser. macOS and Linux versions were released in December 2009.

The first version was a beta for Microsoft Windows was released on 2 September 2008. The open source project behind Google Chrome is known as Chromium. The name comes from the graphical user interface frame, or "chrome", of web browsers. It builds on parts from other open source software, including WebKit and Mozilla Firefox.

Google Chrome is a freeware web browser made by Google. Afrikaans, Amharic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (PRC), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (AU), English (UK), English (US), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French (Canada), French (France), German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Spain), Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Zuluįreeware under Google Chrome Terms of Service
