--- title: Farewell for now, Chrome. | daily.dev description: Addy Osmani reflects on nearly 14 years working on Chrome, highlighting major contributions including Core Web Vitals that saved users 30,000 years of waiting... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/farewell-for-now-chrome--rangjgki2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Farewell for now, Chrome. | daily.dev og:description: Addy Osmani reflects on nearly 14 years working on Chrome, highlighting major contributions including Core Web Vitals that saved users 30,000 years of waiting... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/farewell-for-now-chrome--rangjgki2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RAngjgKi2.png og:image:alt: Farewell for now, Chrome. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Farewell for now, Chrome. **[Addy Osmani](https://daily.dev/sources/addy)** · [@addyosmani](https://daily.dev/addyosmani) · 7 min read · 223 upvotes · 13 comments ## Summary Addy Osmani reflects on nearly 14 years working on Chrome, highlighting major contributions including Core Web Vitals that saved users 30,000 years of waiting time, evolution of DevTools into the industry standard debugging tool, advancement of PWAs and Service Workers for offline-capable web apps, collaboration with frameworks and tooling ecosystems, development of Speedometer benchmarks with other browser vendors, transition to Manifest V3 for extensions, improvements in browser automation through Headless Chrome and WebDriver BiDi, and early AI agent tooling with Chrome DevTools MCP. He announces his transition to a new role at Google while expressing gratitude to the web development community. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@rryyqn** · 28 upvotes >  **@idoshamun** · 11 upvotes > @addyosmani thank you for all the work and making chrome and the web better 💪 **@dailydevtips** · 5 upvotes > You made such great impact on chrome and making the web a better place, thank you! > > Also had me giggle at "no place like Chrome" 😂 **@a\_meb\_a** · 3 upvotes > die chrome **@sarwar7bd** · 2 upvotes > maybe make it eat less ram ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [AddyOsmani.com](https://daily.dev/posts/addyosmani-com-yhockxbsa) · Addy Osmani · 26 upvotes · 3 comments --- Tags: [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#google-chrome](https://daily.dev/tags/google-chrome), [#pwa](https://daily.dev/tags/pwa), [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/farewell-for-now-chrome--rangjgki2) ```json 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