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What is the name of the Easter egg within Google Chrome that's available when you're offline?

Screenshot of game

It involves controlling a T rex which is trying to jump over cacti.

Wrigglenite
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Golden Cuy
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    It's a little game that Google made up to put in Google Chrome. That is what it is called. – Unionhawk Jan 17 '15 at 23:18
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    Still, "Google Chrome Dinosaur Cactus Game" sounds great as a title for it. – DGarvanski May 20 '16 at 06:33
  • https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/chrome-dino/ didn't give an obvious name for the game. – Golden Cuy Sep 27 '18 at 05:28
  • At Google IO, I spoke with the Dinosaur and its keeper one night, and they mentioned the Dinosaur's actual name was "Melissa".

    Nice that they have the full screen game with chrome://dino url now

     – webdevinci Mar 07 '23 at 20:49

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It is simply called T-Rex or T-Rex Runner in the source code, and doesn't seem to have an official name. As it is an Easter Egg, it is likely it will never get one unless or until it is officially acknowledged. The patch with this change also doesn't seem to name it, it simply refers to a bug which is not available to view.

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It's sometimes called the downasaur. I don't know if it was originally his name, but some google folks seem to call it that way nowadays :D

See here: https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/

Reliable - Load instantly and never show the downasaur, even in uncertain network conditions.

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I think the name is Chrome Jump because their is an app based off of it and that is called Chrome Jump.

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