Google refers to this project and the offshoot Chromium OS as "The Chromium Projects", and its employees use email addresses for this development work. Contributors Ĭhromium has been a Google project since its inception, and Google employees have done the bulk of the development work. The Chromium browser codebase contains about 35 million source lines of code. Unlike Chromium, Chrome is not open-source, so its binaries are licensed as freeware under the Google Chrome Terms of Service. While Chrome has the same user interface functionality as Chromium, it changes the color scheme to the Google-branded one. Tracking mechanisms for usage and crash reports.Licensed codecs for the popular H.264 video and AAC audio formats.
Differences from Google Chrome Ĭhromium provides the vast majority of source code for Google Chrome, so the name "Chromium" was chosen by Google because chromium metal is used in chrome plating. Thus many Linux distributions do this, as well as FreeBSD and OpenBSD. This licensing permits any party to build the codebase and share the resulting browser executable with the Chromium name and logo. Other parts are subject to a variety of licenses, including MIT, LGPL, Ms-PL, and an MPL/ GPL/ LGPL tri-license. The Google-authored portion is shared under the 3-clause BSD license.
All versions released with the Chromium name and logo are built by either The Chromium Projects, or other parties.Ĭhromium is an entirely free and open-source software project. Google itself does not provide an official stable version of the Chromium browser, although it provides some official API keys for some included functionality, such as speech to text, text to speech, translation, etc. Moreover, significant portions of the code are used by several app frameworks. Microsoft Edge, Samsung Internet, Opera, and many other browsers are based on the code. This codebase provides the vast majority of code for the Google Chrome browser, which is proprietary software and has some additional features. IA-32, x86-64, ARM, ARM64, any C++-supported platform (source code)Ĭhromium is a free and open-source web browser project, principally developed and maintained by Google. Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, macOS, BSDs com /chromium /srcĬ++ primarily HTML, CSS, JavaScript for UI and test suite