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Chromium web browser

Chromium is the upstream project that Google Chrome browser is based on. Fedora did not include Chromium web browser in the official repository due to problems outlined in

http://ostatic.com/blog/making-projects-easier-to-package-why-chromium-isnt-in-fedora

Tom 'spot' Callaway is working with Google to fix the problems in Chromium. Since Fedora does nowaday allow packages to bundle librariers, it is now possible to package Chromium in Fedora and Tom already created a package review for chromium and its dependencies.

Copr repository

Use the Chromium Copr repository

Google Chrome

Since Chromium is upstream for Google Chrome, all the same issues apply. In addition to that, Fedora does not include Google Chrome because it is a proprietary product and bundles other proprietary software such as Adobe Flash plugin. However, Google does maintain a dnf|yum repository for Fedora at

https://www.google.com/chrome/

The link above also includes downloadable RPMs that you may use to install Chrome.