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Originally Posted by fratermus
You're on the right track. Chromium is the underlying open source browser project. Chrome has proprietary/closed-source additions from Google which serve its commercial interests. From a casual user's point of view I think the main difference is Chrome comes with flash baked-in and chromium users would use a plug-in to get functionality.
Open software purists would probably be happier with Chromium.
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It is my understanding that one of the major differences is that Chrome, unlike Chromium, takes advantage of Google network resources whenever possible. Proxies, DNS servers, stuff like that. Chromium is "tame", it behaves like any other browser would, using network services as they are set up by user, or maintained by user's ISP (Internet Service Provider).
Google is all about network presence. If there is something "evil" about chrome, it likely lies on the other side of network void, on Google servers, not on the client's machine.