Apart from Google Chrome, Chromium also forms the base for a large number of other Web Browsers.Ĭhromium and Google Chrome both have few differences between them. It is designed with a minimalistic user interface so as to make it lightweight and fast.įeatures of Chromium include a tabbed window manager, support for Vorbis, Theora, WebM codecs for HTML5 Audio and Video, Bookmark and History and Session management. It is mainly written in C++ with the latest release being in December 2016. You will find that there is a split between a host of distributions as to whether they ship with Firefox as the default web browser or Chromium. Chromium / ChromeĬhromium is the open source project that forms the basis for Google's Chrome browser. Mozilla is currently in the process of switching to WebExtension framework and it may get a new Web Engine called Quantum and a new UI called Photon by early next year, which might change the game field in its favor. Still, a lot of users love it, and there is a reason why it is the default browser on most major Linux distros. Previously it was battling it out with Internet Explorer for market share and just as it looked like it was beginning to win the battle a new player came onto the scene and now it is not even the best browser on Linux.
Unfortunately, it is destined to always be the bridesmaid and never the bride. However, the performance is a bit clunky, the extension landscape just is not as good as it once was. It is one of the most customizable browsers, and the ocean of user add-ons and themes created for it will likely never be surpassed by other projects. Mozilla Firefox is the third most popular browser in the world, and likely the most popular Linux browser since it ships with many Linux distributions by default. Well, you cannot have a list of Linux web browsers, without Firefox.
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