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On windows you can speed chromium up by renaming it to chrome.exe so it gets special treatment by antivirus software.

>>lillec+(OP)
That's incredibly dumb if true, but can't be the whole story because the difference is still present in the Linux stats.

>>lillec+(OP)
Doesn't windows check the signature or something to decide if an application should be allowed to bypass antivirus? Seems like doing it based on the filename would be a pretty huge security hole.

>>lillec+(OP)
Chromium's executable[1][2] is already named chrome.exe unless the builder goes out of their way to rename it. This can't be the reason.

1. https://download-chromium.appspot.com/ 2. https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-bina...