Native Client is an open-source research technology for running x86 native code in web applications, with the goal of maintaining the browser neutrality, OS portability, and safety that people expect from web apps.

Google Native Client is the recent project by Google to give you a technology that will help you improve upon your web application experience many folds. In the earlier stage Google had devised a version of Native Client for Ubuntu - the flavor of Linux that Google runs. Now with time, versions of Native Client for Windows XP and Mac OS X have been developed and tested. Native Client works with Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Google Chrome, with plans to support ARM and PowerPC.
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