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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
I see, that there is an open source project called 'Chromium' available for Linux, and then the standard Google software called "Chrome". Aside from the slightly different screen icons, they appear to offer the same functionality and have the same User interface. What's up with that? Is one preferable to the other?
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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.
I have both on my machine. I use Chrome as a daily driver, loaded up with whatever extensions I like. I keep stock Chromium on hand in stock form.