If you’ve ever used Google’s free Chrome browser, you may be aware that it’s closely related to another, similarly named Google project called “Chromium.” Chrome and Chromium share a heavy portion of their core browser code, but Chrome is a proprietary Google product, while Chromium is open source. Both serve Linux, Windows and Mac OS X platforms, however, and both continue to vie for user share with Mozilla’s open source Firefox, their distant cousin.
Google is now enforcing no third party extensions. All extensions have to be installed from the Chrome store on Windows. Their attitude toward the user community will make Chromium much more popular.
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"Chrome has an auto-update feature, while Chromium does not. That remains an advantage for using Chrome rather than Chromium on Windows and Mac platforms as well."
advantage? sure until you find out you use something they removed from the next version...
like the app pages which used to be to the right of "most used" in "new tab", you could save weblinks there... and then it disappeared
or the ability to pin one or all of your "most used" so they wouldn't change unless you want them to... also removed
(the disadvantages of auto-update... especially when you are unable to turn auto-update off)
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A Tale of Two Browsers: Chrome v. Chromium
Posted by: Jack M. Germain November 26, 2013 05:00 AMIf you’ve ever used Google’s free Chrome browser, you may be aware that it’s closely related to another, similarly named Google project called “Chromium.” Chrome and Chromium share a heavy portion of their core browser code, but Chrome is a proprietary Google product, while Chromium is open source. Both serve Linux, Windows and Mac OS X platforms, however, and both continue to vie for user share with Mozilla’s open source Firefox, their distant cousin.
"Chrome has an auto-update feature, while Chromium does not. That remains an advantage for using Chrome rather than Chromium on Windows and Mac platforms as well."
advantage? sure until you find out you use something they removed from the next version...
like the app pages which used to be to the right of "most used" in "new tab", you could save weblinks there... and then it disappeared
or the ability to pin one or all of your "most used" so they wouldn't change unless you want them to... also removed
(the disadvantages of auto-update... especially when you are unable to turn auto-update off)