Google: Chrome may migrate to Android

04 Sep 2008 09:50

Co-founder Sergey Brin says the Chrome technology is likely to move to Google's Android mobile-phone software in the near future

Google's Chrome browser is, at the moment, for PCs, but company co-founder Sergey Brin has said he expects the technology to make its way to Android, the company's mobile-phone operating system and software suite.

Chrome and Android were developed largely separately, Brin said in an interview at the Chrome launch event on Tuesday. "We have not wanted to bind one's hands to the other's," Brin said. However, that may change now that both projects are public and nearing their first final releases.

"Probably a subsequent version of Android is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack," Brin said, pointing to JavaScript improvements as one area.

The transferred brand name is also likely to be similar. "My guess is we'll have 'Chrome-like' or something similar," he said.

Chrome and Android's current browser both already employ WebKit, an open-source project for the process of interpreting the HTML code that makes up a web page and rendering it on a screen.

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