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Someone's muddled the chrome-related tags!

Chromium is an open-source web browser. Chrome is a closed-source derivative of Chromium made by Google. Chrome OS is an operating system based on the same closed Google browser. Chromium OS, however, is the operating system based directly on the open-source Chromium.

As of now, there are three tags: google-chrome, chromium, and chrome-os. This is misleading because:

Google's Chrome OS is ONLY available when it comes pre-installed on a chromebook.

The "Chrome OS" that people try to install on their previously-bought laptops (nightly builds, etc.) is not Chrome OS. It is actually Chromium OS. This fosters much more questions, about compiling, installing, etc., than the pre-built, pre-installed, pre-configured Chrome OS.

We should revise these tags to be google-chrome, google-chrome-os, either chromium or chromium-browser (to make it clear to unknowledgable people), and chromium-os.

There also exists a chromeos tag, which should be merged into chrome-os. (We can leave extensions as one tag as I believe they are cross-compatible.)

Someone's muddled the chrome-related tags!

Chromium is an open-source web browser. Chrome is a closed-source derivative of Chromium made by Google. Chrome OS is an operating system based on the same closed Google browser. Chromium OS, however, is the operating system based directly on the open-source Chromium.

As of now, there are three tags: google-chrome, chromium, and chrome-os. This is misleading because:

Google's Chrome OS is ONLY available when it comes pre-installed on a Chromebook.

The "Chrome OS" that people try to install on their previously-bought laptops (nightly builds, etc.) is not Chrome OS. It is actually Chromium OS. This fosters many more questions about compiling, installing, etc. than the pre-built, pre-installed, pre-configured Chrome OS.

We should revise these tags to be google-chrome, google-chrome-os, either chromium or chromium-browser (to make it clear to unknowledgable people), and chromium-os.

There also exists a chromeos tag, which should be merged into chrome-os. (We can leave extensions as one tag as I believe they are cross-compatible.)

Someone's muddled the chrome-related tags!

Chromium is an open-source web browser. Chrome is a closed-source derivative of Chromium made by Google. Chrome OS is an operating system based on the same closed Google browser. Chromium OS, however, is the operating system based directly on the open-source Chromium.

As of now, there are three tags: google-chrome, chromium, and chrome-os. This is misleading because:

Google's Chrome OS is ONLY available when it comes pre-installed on a chromebook.

The "Chrome OS" that people try to install on their previously-bought laptops (nightly builds, etc.) is not Chrome OS. It is actually Chromium OS. This fosters much more questions, about compiling, installing, etc., than the pre-built, pre-installed, pre-configured Chrome OS.

We should revise these tags to be google-chrome, google-chrome-os, either chromium or chromium-browser (to make it clear to unknowledgable people), and chromium-os.

There also exists a chromeos tag, which should be merged into chrome-os. (We can leave extensions as one tag.)

Someone's muddled the chrome-related tags!

Chromium is an open-source web browser. Chrome is a closed-source derivative of Chromium made by Google. Chrome OS is an operating system based on the same closed Google browser. Chromium OS, however, is the operating system based directly on the open-source Chromium.

As of now, there are three tags: google-chrome, chromium, and chrome-os. This is misleading because:

Google's Chrome OS is ONLY available when it comes pre-installed on a chromebook.

The "Chrome OS" that people try to install on their previously-bought laptops (nightly builds, etc.) is not Chrome OS. It is actually Chromium OS. This fosters much more questions, about compiling, installing, etc., than the pre-built, pre-installed, pre-configured Chrome OS.

We should revise these tags to be google-chrome, google-chrome-os, either chromium or chromium-browser (to make it clear to unknowledgable people), and chromium-os.

There also exists a chromeos tag, which should be merged into chrome-os. (We can leave extensions as one tag as I believe they are cross-compatible.)

Chromium is an open-source web browser. Chrome is a closed-source derivative of Chromium made by Google. Chrome OS is an operating system based on the same closed Google browser. Chromium OS, however, is the operating system based directly on the open-source Chromium.

As of now, there are three tags: google-chrome, chromium, and chrome-os. This is misleading because:

Google's Chrome OS is ONLY available when it comes pre-installed on a chromebook.

The "Chrome OS" that people try to install on their previously-bought laptops (nightly builds, etc.) is not Chrome OS. It is actually Chromium OS. This fosters much more questions, about compiling, installing, etc., than the pre-built, pre-installed, pre-configured Chrome OS.

We should revise these tags to be google-chrome, google-chrome-os, either chromium or chromium-browser (to make it clear to unknowledgable people), and chromium-os.

There also exists a chromeos tag, which should be merged into chrome-os. (We can leave extensions as one tag.)

Someone's muddled the chrome-related tags!

Chromium is an open-source web browser. Chrome is a closed-source derivative of Chromium made by Google. Chrome OS is an operating system based on the same closed Google browser. Chromium OS, however, is the operating system based directly on the open-source Chromium.

As of now, there are three tags: google-chrome, chromium, and chrome-os. This is misleading because:

Google's Chrome OS is ONLY available when it comes pre-installed on a chromebook.

The "Chrome OS" that people try to install on their previously-bought laptops (nightly builds, etc.) is not Chrome OS. It is actually Chromium OS. This fosters much more questions, about compiling, installing, etc., than the pre-built, pre-installed, pre-configured Chrome OS.

We should revise these tags to be google-chrome, google-chrome-os, either chromium or chromium-browser (to make it clear to unknowledgable people), and chromium-os.

There also exists a chromeos tag, which should be merged into chrome-os. (We can leave extensions as one tag.)