Chromium is google’s open source version of Chrome.
“” Chromium has been a Google project since its inception,[1][3] and Google employees have done the bulk of the development work.[14] “”
I just stumbled on a browser I’d never heard of called LibreWolf. It’s based on Firefox with a focus on privacy and security.
“” According to the website PrivacyTests.org, LibreWolf, along with Brave Browser and Tor Browser, had the most privacy protection compared to other browsers.[16][17] “”
I’m currently migrating from Waterfox to LibreWolf. I also have Brave which I use for specific things, like logging into my bank’s web app.
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https://chromium.woolyss.com/?stb=1#windows-64-bit
Intrinsically, Chromium is a Google project maintained by many authors (developers, engineers, graphic designers, security researchers ... ) from Google, Adobe, Amazon, ARM, Brave, Cloudflare, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Igalia, Intel, Logitech, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nvidia, Opera, Samsung, Vivaldi, Xiaomi, Yandex ... and external contributors.
Chromium is not only a web browser. It is a blend of different important open-source projects:
ANGLE (Graphics engine abstraction layer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANGLE_(software)Blink (Rendering/layout engine)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine)Native Client (Sandbox for running native code)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_ClientPDFium (PDF generation and rendering library)
https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/Sandbox (Security mechanism for separating running programs)
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/design/sandbox.mdSkia (Graphics library)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skia_Graphics_EngineV8 (JavaScript engine)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_V8and others . . .
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Deviations from Chromium (features we [Brave] disable or remove)
brave/brave-browser (at Github)
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-Chromium-(features-we-disable-or-remove)
What Chromium features are removed for privacy/security reasons?
- Google accounts integration ("GAIA") is disabled
- All features that send data to Google are removed from settings
- DNS prefetching is disabled
- Chrome Google URL Tracker is disabled
And much more at that Github site.
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Chromium is the core Internet browser, the engine around which, Google Chrome is built; with alterations for different Operating Systems.
Microsoft Edge is built around the Chromium engine. Same for Brave Browser and some others.