{"id":2939,"date":"2020-03-27T22:04:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.24x7serversupport.com\/blog\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2020-03-29T11:46:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T06:16:04","slug":"chrome-vs-chromium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.24x7serversupport.com\/blog\/chrome-vs-chromium\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome vs Chromium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is Chromium?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chromium.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chromium<\/a>\u00a0is the open source project from which Google\u00a0draws the source code for the creation of Chrome. Practically Googles purpose was that Chromium was supposed to be the name of the project and not the browser. Like Google\u00a0mentions to the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/dev.chromium.org\/developers\/coding-style#Naming\" target=\"_blank\">instructions for programmers\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0the name \u201cChromium\u201d must never be mentioned to the code, to variables, APIs etc of Chrome. But since the code \u00a0of Chromium project is open, some of the programmers decided to release it\u00a0autonomously as Chromium browser. Since\u00a0Linux community\u00a0shows\u00a0clear preference to open source software, Chromium is the browser that exists in repositories of the most Linux Distros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What differences has Chromium compared to Chrome?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Practically those two browsers share the majority of the source code and features, and generally their differences are small. The biggest part of differences has to do with the fact that Chrome includes some closed source apps like audio and video codecs (AAC, H.264, MP3), Flash, PDF Reader \u2013 which opens PDF files inside the browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> When Chromium is installed is 100% open source and it doesn\u2019t include the above apps. Of course we can install them afterwards from the repositories of our Linux Distribution so we can have fully the features of Chrome. Also, chrome has the feature of automated \u201csilent\u201d updated in it\u2019s last edition and also the capability of sending message to google in case of a crash. The code for the automated updated has not been include in Chromium because maybe someone will want to use Chromium\u2019s source code to build his\/hers own browser like it happens with\u00a0Torch\u00a0and\u00a0Iron. Last, Chrome has deactivated some security characteristics like Sandbox while in Chromium it depends on the distro if\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sandbox_(computer_security)\" target=\"_blank\">Sandbox<\/a>\u00a0will be activated or not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Chrome, Chromium and Privacy<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a tale that with Chrome, google watches our personal data while with Chromium we\u2019re safe from the surveillance. In reality though, both of those browsers have exactly the same settings when it comes to privacy and we can fully set up what\u2019s going to happen while we\u2019re browsing. For more info see\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/chrome\/answer\/114836?p=settings_privacy&amp;rd=1&amp;hl=el\" target=\"_blank\">Chromes Privacy Settings<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Is it possible to install Chromium on Windows?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Chromium can be installed in any OS that supports Chrome either it\u2019s Windows, Mac or Linux. Visit the page of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/download-chromium.appspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chromium<\/a>&nbsp;and it will show you automated the choice for our own OS. Also the download is in portable format which doesn\u2019t need installation. All we have to do is decompress the files and run the Chrome app. Since it doesn\u2019t update automatically, if we want something more from Chrome, google suggests Chrome Canary or the Dev edition of chrome which incluled the newer features before the Chrome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Which one to choose? Chrome or Chromium?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, if we consider that those two are practically the same, just with some lss characteristics, Chrome is the best choice for most users. In Linux it\u2019s a little bit of trouble to install it because it\u2019s not avaiable in software center but again it\u2019s simple. But again, if you want to try chromium go ahead and do it, it\u2019s free anyway!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Chromium? Chromium\u00a0is the open source project from which Google\u00a0draws the source code for the creation of Chrome. 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