How does Chromium differ from Chrome?Ĭhromium is a subset of Chrome and of Edge, since Google and Microsoft bolt on other components and features to the former to craft their wares. Think of Chromium as an ancestor of Chrome and Edge - and not necessarily a close one - that shares its DNA with the polished browsers.
Instead, Google and Microsoft add their own proprietary code to Chromium that build services like the browser's automated update mechanism and features such as its tab user experience (UX), to create the actual Chrome and Edge. Chrome and Edge, on the other hand, begin with Chromium but do not end with it. The browser compiled from the current Chromium source code is called, not surprisingly, Chromium. company said its commits - changes made to the source code - had reached 3,700. Microsoft, for example, started providing serious input into Chromium in 2019 and regularly boasts about how many "commits" its engineers have contributed to Chromium. Google is the primary backer of Chromium - it kicked off the project when it launched Chrome in September 2008 - but because the code is open-source, others, including people not employed by Google, contribute to the Chromium project.
Chromium is not only the name of a browser, but also of the open-source project that generates the source code used by Chrome, Edge and others.
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