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On windows you can speed chromium up by renaming it to chrome.exe so it gets special treatment by antivirus software.
by lillecarl 3y ago
On windows you can speed chromium up by renaming it to chrome.exe so it gets special treatment by antivirus software.
- lolinder 3y agoThat's incredibly dumb if true, but can't be the whole story because the difference is still present in the Linux stats.
- voxic11 3y agoDoesn't windows check the signature or something to decide if an application should be allowed to bypass antivirus? Seems like doing it based on the filename would be a pretty huge security hole.
- tredre3 3y agoChromium's executable[1][2] is already named chrome.exe unless the builder goes out of their way to rename it. This can't be the reason. 1. https://download-chromium.appspot.com/ https://download-chromium.appspot.com/ 2. https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/releases/windows/ https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-bina...