You should note that while it’s not Google-branded, Chromium is still very Google-centric. This is one of Chromium (and Chrome’s) best features.

Security Sandbox (?). Google also notes that some Linux distributions may disable Chromium’s security sandbox, so you’ll want to navigate to about:sandbox in Chromium to ensure the sandbox is enabled and functioning by default.

User of Chrome can opt to send statistics on crashes and errors to Google for analysis.

For Chrome, Google disables extensions that are not hosted in the Chrome Web Store. Linux users use their standard software management tools.

Google Update. Windows and Mac users of Chrome get an extra background app that automatically keeps Chrome up-to-date.

(You can actually get a Pepper Flash plug-in from Chrome and then install it and use it in Chromium, if you like.) Even on Windows and Mac, you’re better off with the sandboxed PPAPI Flash plugin from Chrome rather than the older NPAPI Flash plug-in available from Adobe’s website.

This is the only way to get the most modern version of Flash on Linux.

Adobe Flash (PPAPI). Chrome includes a sandboxed Pepper API (PPAPI) Flash plug-in that Google automatically updates along with Chrome.

RELATED: Using Firefox on Linux? Your Flash Player is Old and Outdated! Both browsers include the basic, free codecs: Opus, Theora, Vorbis, VP8, VP9, and WAV.

AAC, H.264, and MP3 Support. Chrome includes licensed codecs for these proprietary media formats, giving you acess to a wider variety of media content-particularly sites using HTML5 video to stream H.264 videos.

Specifically, Google takes Chromium and then adds the following: Chrome is based on Chromium, but Google adds a number of proprietary, closed-source bits to their Chrome browser that Chromium lacks.

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