What is "chromium"

Chromium is an open source browser project, based on Google Chrome and other browsers.

The snapshots of the Chromium project look similar to the latest versions of Google Chrome, apart from some modifications of Google, the most visible among them are Google’s automatic update engine, usage tracking, built-in PDF viewer and bundled Adobe flash player.

Chromium uses the Webkit layout engine.

See also:

• http://www.chromium.org/
• How to obtain the Code
• Setup instructions for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, Chrome OS and Android
• Chromium Developers Page