Chromium

The open-source browser project that Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera and Vivaldi are all built from.

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About Chromium

Chromium is the upstream project rather than a consumer product. It is the same rendering engine and interface Chrome ships, minus the Google-branded pieces: no automatic updates, no crash reporting infrastructure, no built-in codecs for some proprietary media formats, and no Widevine DRM, which is why Netflix and Spotify usually will not play in it.

Google does not publish an installer for ordinary users. You either build it yourself, take a build from your Linux distribution, or use a third-party packager such as Hibbiki on Windows. Because there is no auto-update, a Chromium install you forget about will keep running an old engine with known holes in it, so treat it as a tool for testing and tinkering rather than a daily browser.

Strengths

  • The upstream codebase every Chromium browser is derived from, useful for checking whether a bug is Chrome's or the engine's
  • No Google account integration, sign-in or usage reporting built in
  • Packaged by most Linux distributions, so it installs and updates like any other system package
  • Chrome for Testing builds exist for every release channel, which is what automated browser testing normally uses

Limitations

  • Official builds do not auto-update, so a Windows or macOS install goes stale and insecure unless you replace it by hand
  • No Widevine DRM in most builds, so paid streaming services will not play
  • Google publishes no ready-made installer for non-developers; Windows builds come from third parties
  • Some proprietary media codecs are missing depending on how the build was compiled

Details

Pricing
FreeFree and open source. There is no paid tier and no vendor selling it.
License
BSD-3-Clause
Developer
Chromium
Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux
How it runs
Downloadable app
Account
Not required
Works offline
No
Best suited for
Testing a site against the bare Chromium engine, or running Chrome's interface without Google's services
Categories
Web browsers
Last verified
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Provenance
Selected from the TechWalrus downloads catalog (Browsers); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 2 sources on file.

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