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## Chrome vs Chromium – What’s the Difference?

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  By Tasman Hayes
- Post date
  December 29, 2011

What’s the difference between Chrome and Chromium? Well, Chromium is the open source part of Chrome, released to open source by Google in 2008. Chromium is available as a standalone browser.

Google’s Chrome browser uses the code from Chromium, and adds some proprietary features:

- a built-in Flash player (yes, that’s right – Flash is built-in to Chrome)
- a built-in PDF viewer
- AAC and MP3 audio support
- an auto-updater
- option to report crashes to Google
- option to report usage stats to Google
- Google branding
- RLZ reporting, telling Google from where Chrome was downloaded

You can see a table of differences here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome.

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