Chromium Overview
Chromium is the open-source browser project that Google Chrome and many other browsers are built from, released under a BSD license. It provides the Blink rendering engine and V8 JavaScript engine and almost all of Chrome's interface and behavior, but without Google's proprietary additions: there is no built-in automatic updater, no Google-branded sync setup, no usage tracking, and some patent-encumbered media codecs are omitted, which can affect playback of certain video formats. Developers and privacy-minded users choose Chromium to get Chrome's capabilities from auditable open-source code. Because there is no auto-updater, the offline installer/build you save must be updated manually. This page links to an official Chromium source so you can get a clean, Google-free build.