Debian does apply patches -- just look at their packaging repository: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-chromium/pkg-chromium.git/tree/debian/patches http://a

Debian does apply patches -- just look at their packaging repository: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-chromium/pkg-chromium.git/tree/debian/patches http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-chromium/pkg-chromium.git... Google also documents that Chromium may have distro-specific patches applied and how it differs from the Google Chrome binaries provided by Google: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxChromiumPackages https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxChromiumPackage... https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoo...