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I’ve seen a lot of Debian user asking:  ”What is the difference between chromium-browser in sid and google-chrome (stable)?”, “Does chromium-browser support html5, h264, vp8?”

“Why would I prefer chromium-browser in sid over google-chrome (stable)?”

• chromium-browser is free software, google-chrome isn’t
• chromium-browser uses (when it is possible) system libs.
• chromium-browser supports, like google-chrome, the h264 codec (and chromium official builds don’t support it)
• chromium-browser in sid follows the stable tree, but it contains some important (features and bugfix) backports, as for example VP8/WebM codecs (the stable google-chrome version doesn’t support it),  or the  support for “Ambiance/Radiance and Dust themes button”
• chromium-browser uses a very recent and high-performance libv8 version, google-chrome (stable) uses an ancient version

BTW, the next step is to get chromium-browser into testing and upload a dev version (6.x) in experimental.

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I've seen a lot of Debian user asking:  "What is the difference between chromium-browser in sid and google-chrome (stable)?", "Does chromium-browser support html5, h264, vp8?" "Why would I prefer chromium-browser in sid over google-chrome (stable)?" chromium-browser is free software, google-chrome isn't chromium-browser uses (when it is possible) system libs. chromium-browser supports, like google-chrome, the h264 codec (and chromium ...

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