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by nailer 4245 days ago
Not sure why you think I don't know why they exist, but Chromium is quite different from Chrome: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoo...
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Shamanmuni 4245 days ago
I know that you know it, I was talking about your hypothetical user.

Except for the color of the icon and the lack of support by default for AAC, H.264 and MP3 (I have support for those 3 in Chromium in Arch), do you find anything relevant that will make some non-expert notice they are using Chromium and not Chrome?

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ANTSANTS 4245 days ago
Don't forget Flash and (until recently) PDF reading support.
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nailer 4245 days ago
No I don't, the codec issues are enough.
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Shamanmuni 4245 days ago
I assume you haven't used Chromium. It's not an issue, as I said they don't come by default as in Chrome, but those codecs are easily installable through the package manager.

I hadn't even noticed Chromium doesn't have support by default for those codecs as I have used HTML5 audio and video without an issue. Really, for a non-expert Chromium is just Chrome with a blue icon.

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