![]() ![]() So Chrome has some extra features like auto-updating, browser data tracking, and native support for Flash. So how does this work? Well, Google devs take that Chromium code and build their own, proprietary features on top of it. But here's a cool fact: Chrome is built on top of Chromium's open-source code. The devs at Google develop, maintain, and release it. What is Chrome?Ĭhrome is Google's web browser. If you wanna check it out, download it here. Its different parts are registered under various different licenses, like the BSD License (for the parts written by Google - more on that below) and MIT, LGPL, and others for the rest. Because of this the browser is updated often, which is great. Any developer can modify or update the source code (but only small number of Chromium devs can actually add their very own code).Īnd Chromium has a rather active community of contributors supporting it. What is Chromium?Ĭhromium is an open source web browser run by the Chromium Project, first released in 2008. So let's learn a bit more about Chromium - what it is, and how it's different than Chrome. And funny enough, the two are quite closely related in certain ways. Chromium.sounds like something on the Periodic Table ( it is) or something superheroes would use to defeat their enemies.įun fact: it's also a browser that sounds a lot like Google's Chrome. ![]()
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