Google tried to force a future-proof browser onto past-proof hardware. It was ambitious. It was buggy. But for six glorious months, it let Gingerbread users taste the future.
However, there was a strange, beautiful friction in this era: running on Gingerbread. chrome for android 2.3.6
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For power users who lived between a laptop and their phone, Chrome was worth the lag. For everyone else, the stock browser remained king. Google officially stopped supporting Chrome for Android 2.3.x with the release of Chrome 21 in late 2012. The official Play Store listing for Chrome was updated to require Android 4.0+. Google tried to force a future-proof browser onto
And that was magic. Let us know in the comments if you remember using Chrome back in 2012. there was a strange