New Chrome beta 8 - incredible

Chromium is the original project. It is open-source. Google takes Chromium and adds their stuff to it to make Chrome. So, basically, Chrome is a proprietary Chromium.

 

I use Chromium and I have Flash and h.264 as well as automated (nightly) updates. I don't need or care for PDF reader.

I mainly use it because I want to avoid Google's tracking.

 

True, it's possible to manually plug those into Chromium. If you're willing to perform extra steps, I guess this isn't an issue.

What tracking are we talking about, specifically?

 

I wouldn't call it "incredible", but it's cool.

 

The tracking Chrome does (or maybe used to do, I think I read somewhere Google was ditching it, though). You know, the whole "unique ID number" and all that. From Wikipedia:

 

I wonder when will Chromium/Chrome have the option to disable iframe Until then, it won't be 100% incredible.

It's the only browser I know of it won't allow to do it, among Opera, IE, Firefox and Safari.

 

You can opt out of RLZ tracking at the Chrome download page. Doing so will serve you a Chrome installer that doesn't include an RLZ string.

On Windows at least, you can zap the RLZ string post-install by nuking a registry entry even if you selected to participate in RLZ tracking. Not sure how it's done in Linux, though.