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> Android and Chrome are open source Chrome is not open source. Chromium is. This is not a pedantic point - a lot of things that work in Chrome are not availa

> Android and Chrome are open source Chrome is not open source. Chromium is. This is not a pedantic point - a lot of things that work in Chrome are not available in Chromium, and that gap has been widening. AOSP is open source, but less and less of what people think of as Android is part of AOSP - a lot of core functionality has been moved into proprietary Play apps and Google services.

yohui 12y ago
> a lot of things that work in Chrome are not available in Chromium, and that gap has been widening Hpw so? The gap narrowed considerably recently when Google and Foxit open-sourced the PDF plugin. In terms of capabilities, the most visible differences are that Chrome supports a few additional media tags and Flash that Chromium does not, by default. Chromium vs Chrome (on Linux): https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoo... PDFium: https://code.google.com/p/pdfium/ https://code.google.com/p/pdfium/ HN discussion of PDFium: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7781878 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7781878