Gather 'round, kiddos — 'cause it's time for a story.Once upon a time, Chrome was a lean, mean browsing machine.
It was the scrappy lightweight kid in a block filled with clunky old blobs of blubber.
People had never seen a browser so fast, so thoughtfully constructed! It stripped everything down to the essentials and made the act of browsing the web both pleasant and secure — qualities that were anything but standard back in that prehistoric era.Chrome was "minimalist in the extreme," as The New York Times put it — with "extremely fast" page loads and a "snappy" user interface, in the words of Ars Technica.
Its sandbox-centric setup and emphasis on supporting web-based applications made the program "the first true Web 2.0 browser," as some other tech website opined.