When comparing Chromium vs Ungoogled Chromium, the Slant community recommends Chromium for most people. In the question“What are the best web browsers for Windows?” Chromium is ranked 3rd while Ungoogled Chromium is ranked 20th. The most important reason people chose Chromium is:
Chrome and Chromium are available on almost every device nowadays
Specs
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Pros
Pro Cross-platform
Chrome and Chromium are available on almost every device nowadays
Pro Latest Blink
This is the browser Blink is made for and developed alongside.
Pro Sandboxing
Every tab and plugin runs in its own subprocess so they will never affect the whole browser ,however that consumes more memory than other browsers
Pro Completely Open Source
Both Chromium and and its rendering engine Blink are licensed under the BSD-license which includes no copyleft unlike the GNU or Mozilla Licenses.
Pro Access to Chrome's extensions
Chromium can access the Chrome Web Store and all the extensions hosted there can be installed and used on Chromium.
Pro Supports all of Google Chrome features
As Chrome is based on Chromium they overlap in supported features. Chromium syncs between devices, automatically updates, has great built-in developer tools, installs extensions without a restart, includes a combined text bar for entering URLs and searching and has excellent HTML5 compatibility just like Chrome.
Pro Bare
It does not have any extensions preinstalled and focuses to be a web browser.
Pro BSD license
You can do almost anything with the code.
Pro Gets constant updates
While the Chromium-based browser haev to adapt their code to the update before release, original Chromuim doesn't need it so it gets updated more constantly and frequently.
Pro Chromium sets the standard for Web Browsing
Since Google Chrome is the most used web browser, and that browser along with many others is based on Chromium, Chromium sets the standards for the internet and for security, and Firefox will always be years behind.
Pro Backed by Google
Chromium was first released as a large portion of Chrome's source code as an open source project by Google in september 2008. The idea was to encourage developers to review the underlying code and to contribute in making Chrome cross platform and port it to Mac and Linux as well.
Nowadays Chromium is a large project with a huge community that's standing behind it but still Google continues to take an extremely active role in Chromium development. This ensures the longevity and constant development and improvement of the browser.
Pro Does not come with Google
Unlike Chrome it does come wihout any Google account requirement.
Pro No telemetry
Pro Free software
100% Open Source and Libre.
Pro Amazing UI
Very clean and slick UI.
Cons
Con Lacks privacy options
Con High RAM usage
Due the sandboxing, Chromium also eats a lot of RAM , which can be a problem for machines with smaller RAM.
Con No official builds
There are no official builds available so you have to rely on a third party distributor
Con Not possible to disable WebRTC
Con Fat, slow, and another piece of google spyware
Con Lacks support for certain common media formats
As Chromium avoids bundling any proprietary software, media that requires proprietary codecs or formats such as AAC, H.264, MP3 and Flash will not play by default on Chromium.
Con Can be dangerous / only available as Source
There are plenty of unofficial Chromium distributors and every one of them can disable specific features (like sandboxing) for their build, so you will never know what you get.
Con Under BSD License
Con Few independent devs fighting the good fight
Although their work is to be fully commended, it can not be ignored that the devs of ungoogled Chromium are doing a massive task, and TBH waste their time while doing it. They're up against mega corp Google, reversing all the questionable stuff Google puts in Chrome to make them money. So David and Goliath, or a few devs in their spare time against "CyberDyne" if you will. So continuity might be an issue with ungoogled Chromium. Will it be up-to-date? Will it survive to see another day? Will the devs loose interest? The answer will most likely depend on your (previous) experience and scepticism.
Con Sometimes outdated
Con Still contains telementery
Default home page is telementery, and most websites are enabled by google.
Con Some websites think it is Chrome 80
As of today, many sites, like login.iready.com , might mislabel the browser as chrome.
Con Uses blink V8 turbo
It a old blink fork that is made up by nicwow.
Con Chrome clone
Ungoogled Chromium is a clone of Chrome, and since clone browsers are behind in updates giving a huge security risk, browsers like Tuga browser and Ungoogled Chromium should be avoided.
Con Uses a fake browser engine
Con Looks proprietary
Ungoogled Chromium is not that open source, but it might be closed source for windows 8.1 and below.
Con Difficult to install
Con Mostly just a customized Chromium build
Not much new here as many of chromiums features can be enabled or turned off with build flags.
Con Dependent on Google
Does not free you from big corpo.