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[–] delirious_owl 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't chromium open source too?

[–] linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

someone else can probably give a more comprehensive/correct answer but here is how I understand it. i believe chromium is open source and chrome is mostly chromium but also some proprietary (and therefor unknown) bits are included. whereas firefox is entirely open source, meaning you could compile it yourself and still end up with the same package.