Chromium
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:
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- chrome.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\chromium\Application\chrome.exe'.
- Scheduled tasks:
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- chrome.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{E8D17A17-228E-4C8C-8CB3-0D623A5371DD}' (runs on registration).
Startup Entries
- Startup tasks:
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- 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:
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- 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):
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- 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:
- –
- 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:
- –
- SHA-1:
- –
- SHA-256:
- –