From 2009. Here's the blog post announcing it: <a href="http://blog.chromium.org/2009/07/smaller-is-faster-and-safer-too.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.chromium.org/2009/07/smaller-is-faster-and-safer...</a>
What happened to software patent litigation against Google concerning Courgette?<p><a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/359939/" rel="nofollow">http://lwn.net/Articles/359939/</a>
Is bandwidth really the limiting factor for updating desktop applications?<p>If you had asked me I would have guessed the limitation would be QA time. Surely they need to do some manual QA before pushing a release to prod, and surely that is more expensive than bandwidth.<p>That being said, it's a really cool project and I'm not at all arguing it shouldn't exist because it does improve the user's experience.
I note there are quite a few recent commits with fixes to what could be security vulnerabilities.<p>e.g. Robust ELF header parsing, NULL pointer access, memory leak, undefined behavior.<p>So probably should update if you use it!<p>What is the bet someone has been stressing it with American Fuzzy Lop.