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Did Google make Chromium?
I find the difference between Chromium and Chrome not very clear. Did Google make both, and release Chromium as open source?
Apple forked Konquerer and made Safari!?!?!
Oh the renderer. Still unbelievable.
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- ?Lv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
Yes, Google did make Chromium. They didn't actually have much choice on the releasing it as open source.
Chromium is Chrome minus all the stuff Google managed to keep proprietary, like the PDF reader, and some of the Google specific bits, like the autocomplete that tells Google everything you type into the omnibar.
A bit of background on why this came about. 10 years ago, there was a small open-source browser for Linux called Konqueror. Apple decided to make a browser, so they took the open-source web renderer (the part that actually displays the web page), modified it, and released their own open source browser called Safari (yes, Safari is open source). Rather than starting from scratch, Google took Safari's rendering engine and used it at the heart of their own browser, Chrome. But, because of the specific license that Konqueror and then Safari used for that web rendering engine, Google is legally required to release all of their modifications as open source.
