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by ralph87 2042 days ago
Chrome is not open source, it's a derived proprietary superset of the open source Chromium. They are not the same thing in very material ways
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Only a few things are different in Chrome. Notably, it has the ability to send crash reports and metrics, play proprietary audio codecs, some Google API keys are added (eg. safe browsing, speech, web store), and the Widevine component to enable DRM. Nothing is different in the core code of the browser.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...

> in very material ways

No pun intended?