chrlauncher

Chromium is the opensource project Google based Chrome on, there should be no need to explicitly stress it's Google free, Chromium is vanilla until google's APIs are added in. I guess the name persists for additional clarity though. I personally use Henry's chrlauncher: https://github.com/henrypp/chrlauncher Some trust is needed but if given it automatically checks for builds on an automated build server and updates Chromium before launching it.

Yeah, works fine. It did clear the password storage at initial sync, don't know if this was because of Chrome to Chromium switch, but I wasn't bothered since I use a password manager anyway and was planning to clear the passwords. Sync works as the normal Chrome one. You can get Chromium for desktop with sync and codecs as well : https://github.com/henrypp/chrlauncher