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Is there any advantage to using Google Chrome over Chromium?

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Chrome and Chromium have different License terms.

Chrome

Chromium

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good info there. – codeLes Aug 21 '09 at 13:10
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link to the Google Chrome TOS is broken, should be google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_text.html – amrox Dec 16 '09 at 2:51
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Chrome has the advantage of a built-in updater which will keep you up to date with new releases automatically.

If you want to use Chrome but still get newer features quicker join the Beta Channel. There's also the Dev Channel which gets thing before the Beta Channel, but that's more likely to be unstable.

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On Linux, a built-in updater is not an advantage, since the distro altmost always has its own preferred method and the two conflict. – Lee B May 2 '10 at 22:36
On Windows, it is not an advantage either; I discovered Chrome has hyper-user rights, allowing it to perform scheduled tasks even an admin can't remove. – Creadiff Jul 12 '11 at 16:44
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Chrome is more stable, Chromium has beta features that are tested before being added to Chrome.

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You need to be a bit more specific.

Chromium is Googles open source project for developing a browser. Chrome is an official Release by google BASED on Chromium.

So on windows you would use Chrome no question.

However on Linux only non-official builds from chromium exist currently until Google release an official version.

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you can also get Chrome (the actual Google one) for Linux, but it's not an official release by Google yet. I've installed both, but basically just use Chromium. – codeLes Aug 21 '09 at 13:11
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and then there is SRWare Iron. think Google Chrome minus the privacy issues.

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No one seems to have mentioned that Google Chrome provides both a propietary PDF viewer and, in the 32-bit versions, a private copy of the flash plugin that uses a different (and some say) better plugin API to the one you download directly from Adobe.

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Basically the answers previously stated tell you what you need to know. But regarding the new features being tested and offered in Chromium, you can still get those in Google's Chrome if you get the developer beta release.

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