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[CountryBumkin]

I switched from Internet Explorer 11 to Google Chrome today (on one client. The rest to follow if all goes well).

In the MC Tools>Options>Tree & View >Web Browser, there are two engine choices (Internet Explorer or Chromium). Is Chromium = Google Chrome?

The name seems close enough - but I would rather be safe than sorry, and ask.

[JimH]

Chromium is the engine that powers the Google Chrome browser.  Try a Yahoo search to read about it.

[Awesome Donkey]

Chromium is the open-source browser Google Chrome is based upon.

[Hendrik]

Its important to note that the engine choice in MC is entirely independent of any browser you have installed on the OS.
You don't need to have Chrome installed to use the Chromium engine, and no settings, extensions or plugins you install in Chrome will influence it either.

[CountryBumkin]

Thanks for the info.
So if the choice (reason for having the engine choices in MC) is not dependent on the web browser I use for "web surfing", then is there a preference to which is used in MC?
Is one better than the other is some regards?


BTW- the problem I am working on is a momentary video freeze happening every few minutes or so when watching movies via Netflix (audio keeps playing without freezing). Sometimes the video freezes for a couple of seconds. It is not freezing at a steady interval. My internet download speed is 5.1Mbps and I don't see the "buffering" Netflix message I would expect to see if the stream was delayed, but something is going wrong. This started a couple of weeks ago. Maybe my internet provider (AT&T UVerse) is throttling back my connection. Not sure how to test.

[glynor]

So if the choice (reason for having the engine choices in MC) is not dependent on the web browser I use for "web surfing", then is there a preference to which is used in MC?
Is one better than the other is some regards?

The Chromium engine is based on WebKit Blink (Google's fairly recent fork).  The IE engine is, of course, based on Trident.

For the vast majority of sites you visit, either will work fine.
For a few sites, one or the other may provide a better experience (more "properly" rendered pages, compatibility, etc).

Generally, it is recommended (as with most options in MC, really) to leave it at the default unless you're encountering a specific problem with the web rendering for specific uses.  It is unlikely to have any impact on streaming performance, though it might be worth trying I suppose.  Your problem with Netflix in particular?

Check:
http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/

Read:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/07/att-might-fix-netflix-problems-for-its-customers-before-verizon-does/
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/09/att-and-verizon-finally-giving-customers-decent-netflix-quality/

Sounds like AT&T is finally feeling pressure from their customers to do something, but who knows how quickly these changes are rolling out nationwide.