Any actual differences between Chrome and Chromium?

[ilolled]

I use Chromium as a U3 application on my flash drive. To me, it looks the same as Chrome on my mom's laptop.
Besides the missing Google logo, what are the differences?

[Panda X]

mium is open source. Therefor it could have under-the-hood changes.

[DrLuke]

It's not spying you out.

[Eudoxia]

It's also slightly faster than Chrome when it comes to JavaScript.

[jivemasta]

[QUOTE=DrLuke;17197767]It's not spying you out.[/QUOTE]

Lies. It only "Spies" if you opt in to send usage data when you install it. Although if you are super paranoid I guess you could call the super bar search as you type kinda spying since it tracks everything you type whether you want it to or not. But even then, if you are that paranoid, stop using the internet. Or don't use either because both versions do it.

To answer you question, there isn't much difference between the two. They are pretty much the same exact code base. All they do to chrome is take a stableish build, and add google stuff to it. So they are usually a few builds behind chromium's latest. But that's only if you are using the dev channel releases, or the daily builds. I'd say the only reason to use chromium is if you want features as soon as they are compiled, and dont mind the possibility of more possible buggyness. Otherwise plain chrome is just fine.

[Imperials^^]

Chromium is updated almost everyday. Therefore, usually buggy. Chrome is the stable builds of Chromium after they've passed Google's standards.

[BananasGoMoo]

one has google in the name, and takes usage data.