Chromium (web browser)
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Chromium
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Developer(s) The Chromium Project
Initial release 2008
Stable release None
Preview release Git rolling release[1] / 16 January 2016
Development status Active
Written in Mainly C++, among others[2]
Operating system BSD
Linux (+GCC v4.6 & +GTK v2.24 & +Glibc 2.15)
OS X (10.6 and later)
Windows (XP SP2 and later)
Android (4.0 and later)
iOS
Engines Blink, V8
Platform Cross-platform
Size Approximately:
28.0 MB (Linux x86)
30.8 MB (Linux x86-64)
65.6 MB (OS X)
36.6 MB (Windows)
33.2 MB (Android)
Type Web browser
License BSD license, MIT License, LGPL, MS-PL and MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-licensed code, plus unlicensed files.[3]
Website www.chromium.org
Chromium is the open-source web browser project from which Google Chrome draws its source code.[4] The browsers share the majority of code and features, though there are some minor differences in features and they have different licensing.
The Chromium Project takes its name from the element chromium, the metal from which chrome plating is made.[5] Google's intention, as expressed in the developer documentation, was that Chromium would be the name of the open-source project and that the final product name would be Chrome;[6] however other developers have taken the Chromium code and released versions under the Chromium name. These are listed under community packages.
One of the major aims of the project is for Chromium to be a tabbed window manager, or shell for the web, as opposed to it being a traditional browser application. The application is designed to have a minimalist user interface. The developers state that it "should feel lightweight (cognitively and physically) and fast".[7]