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Differences between Google Chrome and Linux distro Chromium
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Updated May 20, 2014 by jschuh@chromium.org

Chromium on Linux has two general flavors: You can either get Google Chrome or chromium-browser (see LinuxChromiumPackages). This page tries to describe the differences between the two.

In short, Google Chrome is the Chromium open source project built, packaged, and distributed by Google. This table lists what Google adds to the Google Chrome builds on Linux.

Google Chrome Chromium Extra notes
Logo Colorful Blue
Crash reporting Yes, if you turn it on None Please include symbolized backtraces in bug reports if you don't have crash reporting
User metrics Yes, if you turn it on No
Video and audio tags AAC, H.264, MP3, Opus, Theora, Vorbis, VP8, VP9, and WAV Opus, Theora, Vorbis, VP8, VP9, and WAV by default May vary by distro
Adobe Flash Sandboxed PPAPI (non-free) plugin included in release Supports NPAPI (unsandboxed) plugins, including the one from Adobe in Chrome 34 and below
Code Tested by Chrome developers May be modified by distributions Please include distribution information if you report bugs
Sandbox Always on Depending on the distribution (navigate to about:sandbox to confirm)
Package Single deb/rpm Depending on the distribution
Profile Kept in ~/.config/google-chrome Kept in ~/.config/chromium
Cache Kept in ~/.cache/google-chrome Kept in ~/.cache/chromium
Quality Assurance New releases are tested before sending to users Depending on the distribution Distributions are encouraged to track stable channel releases: see http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/ , http://omahaproxy.appspot.com/ and http://gsdview.appspot.com/chromium-browser-official/
Google API keys Added by Google Depending on the distribution See http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/api-keys

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Comment by cronoklee@gmail.com, Jan 11, 2012

Anyone know if the "print to PDF" is a chrome only option or will it eventually appear in chromium?

Comment by ajth...@gmail.com, Feb 4, 2012

on ubuntu I prefer chromuim, seems much more stable with regard to flash. On the mac, chrome for sure.

Comment by degreef....@gmail.com, Mar 11, 2012

I have a question.

Background: I am totally turned off by the new Google privacy policy. From a Google evangelist I am now avoiding anything Google related, from search engine to browser to whatever, as far as I can.

Observation: I made the switch to chromium and I observed that with everything that could even be remotely related to Google turned off and cleared, the browser connects to Google plus of its own volition, opening a port in the ephemeral group and keeping the connection alive! It is doing this with no activity whatsoever following invocation of the program with a blank home page. What is worse and by all appearances could be construed as really malevolent, is that it does that a few minutes after the start of the program, not immediately, and again with no activity on my part, simply having the browser opened on the page that says "For quick access, place your bookmarks here...", with hands off the computer and nothing else running.

I cannot understand why that would be the case, if chromium is upstream of chrome.

Could someone enlighten me about this. And, if it is a bug, could it get fixed asap.

Looking forward to a quick reply, but meanwhile I'll have to look at alternatives to chrome/chromium.

Thanks

Comment by chrismi...@gmail.com, Mar 11, 2012

So the Chrome shop is no longer available to Chromium?

Comment by absinthesyringe, Mar 26, 2012

Previously in one of my comments above I favorited Chrome over Chromium. However, after awhile in latest Chrome (18) I noticed some bugs which affected Chromium (11) and still haven't been fixed (I.E: Red Dots during HTML5 playback on YouTube?: http://goo.gl/WpWRV)

Second major problem I had is that Java applets wouldn't load (I'm using OpenJDK) while on Chromium all of this works fine.

Again, I'm using Debian Sid and for Linux users I definitely recommend to use Chromium from their distribution software repositories over Chrome.

Comment by jdeki...@gmail.com, May 8, 2012

I tried Chrome a year or so ago on Windows XP. I wasn't impressed and went back to Firefox, which I have used since before its early beta days.

Recently, I had a problem accessing a few import (to me) websites using Firefox on Debian sid amd64. In my search for a solution, I tried Opera and Chromium; both of them were able to open the troublesome websites. Opera wasn't for me, though, and I got rid of it after a couple of days.

I like Chromium well enough. It started up with lightning speed, and - at least at first - it loaded websites faster than FF seemed to. I had to clear the cache an awful lot to keep the speed up, though, even if I only had 3 to 5 tabs open at any given time.

But the memory usage ... oh, my! This machine, running Debian sid, has 4GB of memory and has never before swapped to disk. When running Chromium it always swaps at least 10MB to disk.

My experience with Chromium was, as a user, acceptable; quick startup and fairly responsive under extended use. I found myself using Chromium more than Firefox after a few days. But the memory usage and occasional zombie processes bothered me enough that I went back to Firefox, where I noticed that it was just as responsive as Chromium had been over the previous several days. A few days later I uninstalled Chromium again.

Fix the memory problems and make the toolbar customizable and I might give it another try.

Comment by guerrill...@gmail.com, Jun 4, 2012

Bien deseo que Vds. sepan que yo en ningun momento he iniciado ningun tipo ni de peticion, ni he lanzado un S.O.S. para que alguien me ofreciera su ayuda. Cierto es que no me hubiera venido mal ya que el ordenador fijo no hay quien lo enderece; pero ocurre que yo soy un genuino inculto en estas lides, pues solo llevo desde fin de a�o 2011 intentando hacerme con los "mandos" pero no es nada facil y menos cuando se esta aislado en medio de una urban.y lejos de la "civilizacion", no obstante les doy a todos Vds. las gracias por su altruista atencion. Un saludo.

Comment by ver...@gmail.com, Aug 10, 2012

I'm sorry, but Google Chrome doesn't have a version for Nokia phones, not s60 and not even for Windows Phone. "Chrome for Mobile" is only available for: 1. Android 4.0/4.1 (both phones and tablets) 2. iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch)

Comment by scott.b....@gmail.com, Aug 25, 2012

Hi, I am running Ubuntu 12.04 and you all may know that it comes already installed with Firefox. Well, from my experience with Firefox, the browser has (with updates) become progressively slow and clunky with some pages not loading at all. Now mind you I am referring to how Firefox has been updated over time. The older versions of Firefox, while they were still out, were lightning fast and Firefox was actually my choice browser then. It seems to do fine on Ubuntu, but still hangs before loading each website. I went ahead and installed Chrome, which seems instantly responsive when navigating to another page vice Firefox. I got to admit, I hate Chrome's download manager. I would rather look at a list like on Firefox or a separate page like Opera. Does anyone know of an addon for Chrome to change how that looks? It just bugs me.

My concern is that I have seen on multiple pages that Google has changed their privacy policy. I might be missing something, but what are people so worried about with the new policy change?

Comment by portuges...@gmail.com, Nov 17, 2012

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Comment by redbaron...@gmail.com, Nov 22, 2012

I have started using Google Chrome as a backup browser on my Ubuntu 12.04 since last month or so. I'm a huge fan of Opera but the plugin-on-demand doesn't work properly (yet) on some very important sites I'm visiting a couple of times every single day. A friend of mine (Windows user) also recommended it. However so far I am incredibly disappointed and will soon remove if probably. Google Chrome is not compatible even with Google's own web sites. If you look at YouTube? for example, you get a pretty good idea about what I mean. Not only the HTML5 support is worse (compared to Opera and Firefox for example) but the whole response time of the various components on the page is incredibly bad. To this we can add buggy text fields (you type and see a blank text field, however when you click outside the field the text magically appears!), high CPU usage and pretty big memory footprint, web page gets distorted when trying to type a comment (half of it goes down while the other stay on one place (usually the whole comment section has to go down when you "open" the comment box), which results in an impossible view of all that's bellow including the comment box itself that is found my wildly clicking here and there around the area where the user guesses it would be located). The bugs are countless and considering the couple of years behind the Linux version I am surprised that Google can create something that is worth no more than the thing that builds up around your mouth when you are thirsty.

I will give Chromium a try and hope it will work better. Those problems above might be to all the integrated stuff in Google Chrome. Sadly Adobe for example stopped officially supporting a separate Linux version of its Flash player so in the near future if HTML5 still hasn't gained enough popularity it will be either one of the not so sophisticated attempts of copying Flash and ActionScript? like Gnash or the Flash player integrated in Google Chrome.

PS: When not using the Xorg server Links2 is THE browser that I'm using. I highly recommend it especially if you want to avoid all the pop-ups, ads (not text ads sadly) etc. and just want to READ news, articles etc. Opera is so far my top choice for a normal GUI web browser (actually Opera is more of a web suit like SeaMonkey?).

Comment by grego...@gmail.com, Jan 28, 2013

It would be awesome to be able to read PDFs directly in the browser window. I know that there is no full featured free-software PDF plugin. But basic features as a plugin would be nice. If I want to fill out forms, I can use my system's PDF viewer.

Comment by cjwelb...@gmail.com, May 12, 2013

There is a chromium package in the Ubuntu repos, but no Chrome. I have to manually install updates for Chrome all the time and I hate it. I wish there was an official Chrome package in the repo (that was updated along with everything else), or there was an "Automatic Update" option for linux users. Other big applications handle self-updates on Debian-based systems. Right now I'm just downloading the installer from google.com every few months and checking it against my currently installed version. I tried Chromium, I didn't like it. It was missing a couple things that I like and certain plugins didn't seem to exist or work. If my system can handle running 'heavier' versions of certain applications, I definitely want the features. Right now my system can, and so I do. The update thing bothers me though.

Comment by SBP28211...@gmail.com, May 15, 2013

my google chrome package is not downloaded completely in that "cron.daily" file is not downloaded completely can i get it seperatly??

Comment by craig...@gmail.com, Jun 2, 2013

@cjwelb: when you downloaded the Google Chrome deb file and installed it in ubuntu, Chrome adds a ppa updater for Chrome in your "software sources" list...i guess you weren't aware of that so you have been wasting your time downloading new versions when they come in automatically in your ubuntu updates when chrome sends them down...and they do that as soon as a new version goes into the stable channel... Check your software sources list in your update manager and you will see google's ppa is there!

Comment by michael....@gmail.com, Jul 5, 2013

I definitely prefer Chrome. Unfortunately Chrome seems to be no longer interested in those of us with CentOS.

Comment by randallg...@gmail.com, Sep 9, 2013

We are developing a web site using the Omega Theme for Drupal 7. On Friday the display started looking weird in Chromium on Ubuntu 12.04. I accessed the same page with Firefox and it looked ok. I checked the code and it was the same in both browsers. When I installed the Google Debian package for AMD64 https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/?platform=linux it displayed the site correctly. Actually, the real problem was the local site served with LAMP on my machine. The remote site on Pantheon looked sort of okay in Chromium. We are using Git and drush sql-sync and rsync - I am pretty sure all the code is the same. But Pantheon is running on nginx and I am using Apache? So I am switching to Chrome for local dev. Meh.

Comment by ri...@mail.ru, Oct 30, 2013

Chrome sucks on Kubuntu because it doesn't allow to set custom cache directory and size that would persist across KDE sessions. Chromium does that easily through a config file.

Comment by bino...@gmail.com, Nov 14, 2013

why is it not listed the Chromium does not auto update? It is a huge difference in my opinion if you are trying to to any sort of automated testing with Chrome vs Chromium, Chrome comes with Google update baggage, can someone clarify whether Chromium comes with any such baggage too? I am considering switching to chromium instead of using standalone chrome installer for my automated sessions

Comment by sisomk...@gmail.com, Dec 3, 2013

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Comment by newarma...@gmail.com, Dec 16, 2013

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Comment by sunilpachoriya74@gmail.com, Jan 17, 2014

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Comment by spaul2...@gmail.com, Jan 22, 2014

Can I download this for my Nokia 500 phone? I really need the Google Chrome, please help.

Comment by spaul2...@gmail.com, Jan 22, 2014

Can I download this for my Nokia 500 phone? I really need the Google Chrome, please help.

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Comment by bew...@gmail.com, Mar 11, 2014

It appears that the chrome app API's differ between Chromium and similar versions of Google Chrome for packaged apps. A notable difference is in the chrome.usb and chrome.serial apis.

On chromium, chrome.serial.getPorts exists, while on google chrome, it's called chrome.serial.getDevices exists.

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Comment by dduve...@gmail.com, Mar 13, 2014

chrome and chromium supports same feature and not?

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Comment by color.extension@gmail.com, Apr 25, 2014

2013/02/22 0:44 <chromium@googlecode.com>:

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click or 4-5 word in shell. \n

1/2, code 1/2) \n

codecs 1/2, flash 1/2, PDF 1/2, sandbox 1 or 1/2 (default: off) ) \n

Comment by tomsronn...@gmail.com, May 3, 2014

Which should I dwnld. ?

Comment by damien.t...@gmail.com, May 8, 2014

There is an extension that allows to use PDF.js to view PDFs with chromium and it works quite well. I would like that in the default chromium build !

Comment by nnekaeke...@gmail.com, May 26, 2014

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Comment by zombewito@gmail.com, May 26, 2014

I want to update my google account!

Comment by zombewito@gmail.com, May 26, 2014

I want to update my google account!

Comment by denisnai...@gmail.com, May 27, 2014

I want to download this for my nokia c2 phone please help me.

Comment by aquadir...@gmail.com, May 27, 2014

Install google chrome

Comment by tjharr...@gmail.com, May 27, 2014

Well, now that Google's dropping Chrome support for 32-bit Macs, looks like it's Chromium for here on out on my still perfectly usable Dell hackintosh netbook.

Comment by Zeusoflightning125, Jun 6, 2014

Why would you -ever- run mac? Especially when there's LINUX.

Comment by dav...@gmail.com, Jun 14, 2014

Google has now blocked all third party extensions in Chrome. That is my reason to now switch to Chromium.

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Great work .. But Using Chrome only ..because FOR CHROME CODE TRUSTED BY GOOGLE

Comment by Darten.b...@gmail.com, Jun 29, 2014

There is another difference: “print” in Google Chrome gives a print preview with some options to play with (margin, background pics, headers). In Chromium you go straight to the system dialogue (which you can also get with Chrome).

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Comment by tarata...@gmail.com, Jul 27, 2014

So the Chrome shop is no longer available to Chromium?

Comment by Ramblin....@gmail.com, Jul 30, 2014

Google hasn't blocked third party extensions, at least not on Windows. I haven't tried yet on Ubuntu, but I will see shortly...

Comment by Ramblin....@gmail.com, Jul 30, 2014

Verified; third party extensions are installable and work fine...

Comment by Ramblin....@gmail.com, Jul 30, 2014

For Chromium that is...

Comment by krrk...@gmail.com, Aug 4, 2014

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Comment by Pam.Chri...@gmail.com, Aug 12, 2014

Can I download this version on my table???

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Comment by juurimah...@gmail.com, Sep 7, 2014

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Comment by najeebru...@gmail.com, Sep 29, 2014

I like google acount.because it is easy simple uses..

Comment by Roy.Boldon, Sep 29, 2014

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Comment by juliakim...@gmail.com, Oct 23, 2014

Do you have documentation in Chinese language?

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Comment by jgl...@cloudbees.com, Oct 29, 2014

Also worth noting that Hangout screen-sharing currently works in Chrome but not Chromium: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=416856

Comment by rubytige...@gmail.com, Oct 29, 2014

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Comment by tol.wass...@gmail.com, Nov 29, 2014

Chrome is made by Google but Chromium is made by the community, based on Google Chrome. I prefer Google Chrome Beta, which is still in development but is stabler than Google Chrome Development or Google Chrome Canary, which both may fail to run.

Comment by tol.wass...@gmail.com, Nov 29, 2014

Check this out : http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/79510.html ( at least for linux, I use Kubuntu / Ubuntu...

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I's surprised this is actively used!

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