Google Chrome and KDE

[claydoh]

Chrome vs Chromium, I mainly use Chrome as it seems a touch more stable, faster but probably really not enough to matter. I like the built in pdf viewer, and flash sites seem to work better for me. I have FF as a backup for the rare flash site that works better there, but my secondary browser is still Rekonq.

[TBCShad]

Interesting feedback, thanks everyone. I have been loyal to chrome for years now, and never knew chromium existed, just wondered whether or not I should give it a try since I am going down the Linux rabbit hole XD

Although I have to say, been enjoying Rekonq, and have no complaints about it thus far.

[SteveRiley]

The Wikipedia page about Chromium has a good list of the differences.

Chromium is the name given to the open source project and the browser source code released and maintained by the Chromium Project. It is possible to download the source code and build it manually on many platforms. Google takes this source code and adds:

• Integrated Flash Player
• Built-in PDF viewer
• Built-in print preview and print system
• The Google name and a different logo
• An auto-update system called GoogleUpdate
• An opt-in option for users to send Google their usage statistics and crash reports
• RLZ tracking when Chrome is downloaded as part of marketing promotions and distribution partnerships. This transmits information in encoded form to Google, e.g., when and from where Chrome has been downloaded. In June 2010, Google confirmed that the RLZ tracking token is not present in versions of Chrome downloaded from the Google website directly or in any version of Chromium. The RLZ source code was also made open source at the same time so that developers can confirm what it is and how it works.

By default, Chromium only supports Vorbis, Theora and WebM codecs for the HTML5 audio and video tags; whereas Google Chrome supports these, plus AAC and MP3. On 11 January 2011, the Chrome Product manager, Mike Jazayeri, announced that Chrome will no longer support the H.264 video format for its HTML5 player, equally as Chromium does not. As of November 2012, however, Chrome still supports H.264. Certain Linux distributions may add support for other codecs to their customized versions of Chromium.

[NickStone]

I once attempted to download the source code for Chromium but then discovered the file (archive) was 1.9GB in size! So I didn't bother.