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Chromium

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free and open-source cross-platform web browser

AI overview

Chromium is a free, open-source web browser that works on multiple types of computers and devices. It matters because it serves as the foundation for many popular browsers (including Google Chrome) and allows developers worldwide to contribute improvements to how people browse the internet.

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Encyclopedic overview

Chromium is a free and open-source web browser project, primarily developed and maintained by Google. It is a widely used codebase, providing the vast majority of code for Google Chrome and many other browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Samsung Browser, and Opera. The code is also used by several app frameworks.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chromium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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