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
chrome_child.dll
b0d879dc69d60dc1d93965cc6689a8e3
DLL
chrome.dll
7880d4f4c722978a0ecec3b6fd80c644
DLL
npchrome_frame.dll
289d88dde4d4d17af3f5336d18070a8b
EXE
chrome_launcher.exe
d3012a329ce5a59e2f33d27cb2c53652
EXE
chrome_frame_helper.exe
5f3a0d21b59d7342f1edec3bc3021c00
DLL
chrome_frame_helper.dll
e6482b8720cbb6c13e30dd650c39eea9
EXE
old_chrome.exe
d8b96b80994ab79282b1678ab7bece81
EXE
new_chrome.exe
d151a394072e447e99d5743db84ba194
EXE
chrome.exe
f8130c7aa6e824198c00e036314ba22d
EXE
ceee_broker.exe
ac9276fb6e90365c01fec6a1005e3aac