A closer look at the performance of Google Chrome

Re:A closer look at the performance of Google Chrome by magicalist on Monday February 25, 2013 @04:34PM (#5281973)

Chromium includes sync. Basically the biggest parts you'll be missing are a pdf reader and flash. pdf.js has a chromium extension to make it easy to use there (though depending on the document, it won't necessarily feel faster and more minimal), but if you need flash for something, Chrome is one of the better ways to keep it updated these days. You can always run Chromium and open up Chrome for Flash, though.

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Re:A closer look at the performance of Google Chrome by ynniv on Monday February 25, 2013 @05:12PM (#5282214)

The Chromium build from http://www.freesmug.org/chromium seems to have the PDF viewer as well as the Flash plugin.

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Re:A closer look at the performance of Google Chrome by keeperofdakeys on Monday February 25, 2013 @04:54PM (#5282104)

You can copy the libpdf library from a Chrome install to a Chromium install, since they are the same.

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Re:A closer look at the performance of Google Chrome by k3n on Monday February 25, 2013 @04:38PM (#5282003)

Oh wow, it has sync? I thought all of the proprietary Google features were kept in Chrome; I'm not sure how sync could've been implemented in an agnostic browser...

Thanks for the further info though, it's been awhile since I've updated my Chromium.

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Re:A closer look at the performance of Google Chrome by myrd on Monday February 25, 2013 @06:32PM (#5282643)

There's a barebones sync server implementation written in Python included in the Chromium source repository. You could run your own, if you wanted.

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Re:A closer look at the performance of Google Chrome by jmillikin on Monday February 25, 2013 @05:04PM (#5282167)

Chromium and Chrome are identical, but Chrome includes non-Google proprietary plugins (Flash and a PDF renderer).

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