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Chrome and Chromium have a security Sandbox mode, which is disabled in Chromium, by default.

This implies, if you want to use video streaming apps like Netflix or YouTube, you will have to install these codecs manually, or you will have to switch to Chrome to use these apps.

Also, to play media on Chromium, you need certain licensed media codecs like AAC, H.264, and MP3, which Chromium does not support.

Chromium Project Website releases the most recent updates on Chromium.

Unlike Chrome, it does not receive automatic updates.

Chromium is frequently updated than Chrome, which is a good thing to note, but all those updates have to be downloaded and installed manually.

There are no restrictions on adding different types of browser extensions.

Most users like that Chromium does not track the browsing history or share information with Google about the user browsing behavior.

Since Chromium is a free platform, most people benefit from it, especially advanced users and web developers.Many application frameworks also use the Chromium source code. Some users compile it and release browsers with Chromium Logo and name. Opera, Microsoft Edge, Amazon silk are a few examples of Chromium-based browsers. There are so many browsers that are developed using Chromium as the basis. API keys for few Google services like browser-sync Does not track Usage and Crash reports, and Widevine Digital Rights Management module This implies that Google Chrome has more features and add-ons than Chromium browser, like: Since Chromium was the basis of Chrome, many developers from the community added proprietary code to Chromium’s source code.

Chromium project has a community of developers, i.e., only the developers from the Chromium Project development community are allowed to make changes to the code. It is an open-source and free browser released by Google, and its source code was available to the developers to make changes as per their needs. Along with the release of Chrome, Google open-sourced and released a predominant part of the source code and released it as a Chromium project, in September 2008.