Chromium

Chromium

by The Chromium Project

What is Chromium?

Chromium is software application developed by The Chromium Project. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 10 with nearly 62.85% of installations running this operating system. Chromium's installer is typically 181.00 MB in size and installs around 26 files. The most common release is 63.0.3215.0 with 0.11% of all installations currently using this version.

Chromium is most popular in the United States with 58.26% of installations residing in this country.

Chromium adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Chromium is known to create 1 firewall exception to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

About Chromium?

Chromium is an open source web browser project that serves as the source code for Google Chrome. The two browsers share the majority of their code and features, with some minor differences. The project is named after the element chromium, which is used in chrome plating. Google's original intention, as expressed in developer documentation, was for Chromium to be the name of the open source project and for the final product to be named Chrome. The primary goal of the project is for Chrome to function as a tabbed window manager or shell for the web, rather than a traditional browser application. The application features a minimalist user interface and is designed to feel lightweight and fast, both cognitively and physically.

Software Behaviors

Firewall:
  • chrome.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\chromium\Application\chrome.exe'.
Scheduled tasks:
  • chrome.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{E8D17A17-228E-4C8C-8CB3-0D623A5371DD}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:
  • chrome.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Chromium_Reg_HKCURun_S-1-5-21-4171239968-2979343440-2431637665-1001.
Registry entries:
  • chrome.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'GoogleChromeAutoLaunch_AF8BB368C19AD89301865936E65234D9' and executes as "C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Chromium\Application\chrome.exe" --auto-launch-at-startup --profile-directory="Default".
Registry entries (User):
  • chrome.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'Application Restart #3' which loads as C:\users\user\appdata\Local\chromium\Application\chrome.exe --no-startup-window /prefetcC:5 --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --restore-last-session.

Software Details

URL:
https://www.chromium.org
Support:
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Installation path:
C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Chromium\Application
Uninstaller:
"C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Chromium\Application\23.0.1263.0\Installer\setup.exe" --uninstall
Size:
181.00 MB
Language:
English

Chromium Executable Details

Primary executable:
chrome.exe
Name:
Chromium
Path:
C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Chromium\Application\chrome.exe
MD5:
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SHA-1:
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SHA-256:
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Files installed by Chromium
File Type Filename MD5
DLL
d3dcompiler_47.dll
2aaf01acc3166754e8a417d9597d19d5
DLL
ffmpegsumo.dll
5a9d30c31b801c3a3f4f7db4e0156ee4
DLL
libEGL.dll
c56cf1fc117f8c1753c394b678357f97
DLL
libGLESv2.dll
473f52375ca7e36bf2cce5bf30dacc2d
EXE
Setup.exe
a0d1944b425d86432d3274282fbd8060
EXE
wow_helper.exe
9f1ae66d7954fe2e0909a5ebc6b94798
EXE
nacl64.exe
52b4cb9ea72bcdee00a97075ca69e675
DLL
metro_driver.dll
8d1b00ab78b891eefe7ea4ebce0cbfe5
EXE
delegate_execute.exe
ff89add5e984579ac0e3865900f7e843
DLL
chrome_elf.dll
21e496403096e47382f8e2cbb804cb00