Chromium (web browser)

Chromium is a free and open-source web browser project, primarily developed and maintained by Google. This codebase provides the vast majority of code for the Google Chrome browser, which is proprietary software with additional features.

Chromium
Original author(s)Google
Developer(s)The Chromium Projects
Initial release2 September 2008 (2008-09-02)
Repository
Written inC++ primarily, HTML, CSS, JavaScript for UI and test suite
EnginesBlink, V8
Operating systemWindows, Linux, Android, iOS, macOS, BSD
PlatformIA-32, x86-64, ARM, ARM64
LicenseBSD-3 and others
Websitewww.chromium.org/Home

The Chromium codebase is widely used. Microsoft Edge, Samsung Internet, Opera, and many other browsers are based on the Chromium code. Moreover, significant portions of the code are used by several app frameworks.

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