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UberFly on March 18, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Each Firefox download has a unique identifier

Chrome is worse. Chromium is the open-source engine which is fine until someone like Google turns it into their minion.

MrYellowP on March 18, 2022 [–]

You make it sound like Google took Chromium and created Chrome out of it.

It's the other way round.

UberFly on March 18, 2022 | [–]

The two are separate things. Chrome is built on top of the chromium base. I guess technically chromium and chrome v1 were developed and released about the same time so chicken and egg thing.

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