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I don't think calling Chrome a closed source browser is accurate unless you have a citation showing that Chromium is missing this code Microsoft Edge is a clos

• falcolas 6y ago
  Chrome is a closed-source fork of Chromium that applies numerous proprietary patches to Chromium. There's no way to tell what has been modified in that process (short of decompilation, et.al.). Pretty much the same process that Microsoft takes with Edge, really.
• nerdponx 6y ago
  I don't think calling Chrome a closed source browser is accurate unless you have a citation showing that Chromium is missing this code That's completely backwards. You would need some evidence showing that Chrome does not include proprietary patches, otherwise you pretty much have to conclude that it's closed-source, even if it includes a large % of code from an open-source product.