Re: [PATCHv2] git-web--browse: Add support for google chrome

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On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Will Palmer <wmpalmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> perhaps this has already been discussed, but aren't "chrome" and
> "chromium" two different browsers? (based on the same code, sure, but
> different releases which are often installed separately, all the same)

Correct. The chromium browser is 100% open-source. You can compile it
yourself or download a continuous build of it from the chromium trunk
(the Chromium project uses subversion for
chromium/chrome/chrome-frame, though interestingly uses git for
ChromiumOS). This is generally a developer release.

Google Chrome is a Google-branded version of the chromium browser. It
includes some non-opensource or restricted components (such as H.264
playback, Flash, Google design assets, etc), so you can't compile it
yourself. Rather you can only download binaries of various vintages
(dev, beta, stable). This is generally the consumer release.

j.
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