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To be fair, Google Chrome is completely open source too, expect for the integrated PDF Reader and Flash. You can compile Chromium from the source and add these two manually, if you need them.


It is, but using it means that Google gets your vote when discussing the future of the web. I'd rather have Mozilla shaping the web than Google.


Since Chromium is actually using the WebKit engine, wouldn't it be Apple, and not Google?


It's a bit of both with a healthy sprinkling of Nokia, Samsung, and quite a few others. In reality, WebKit has been driving the standards process for quite some time now (especially considering its unrivaled dominance on mobile).


Apple is just one of several companies and developers of the WebKit engine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit


It's Google that decides what features and protocols are implemented into Chrome. Since they control a large share of the market, it basically gives them life or death power on new features of web languages.


FYI: difference between Chrome and Chromium:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Differen...


I think he knows. He specified that not all of Chrome is open source.

Edit: he got it wrong, though. The Google features of Chrome are not open source.




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