the patch series
147 patches.
On top of Chromium.
Surferse is Chromium plus a series of 147 patches. The patch repository is private, so this page describes the series rather than linking to it.
By group
| group | patches | added | removed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Branding | 36 | +2,644 | −2,503 |
| Other | 35 | +2,506 | −1,166 |
| Identity / UniAuth | 32 | +4,009 | −622 |
| Google services | 23 | +1,556 | −1,174 |
| Sync | 18 | +3,775 | −385 |
| Telemetry | 3 | +49 | −15 |
| Total | 147 | +14,539 | −5,865 |
Reading the numbers
- Seven patches count zero lines. They change only binary files — icons, Assets.car and the recoloured first-run banners — so there are no text lines to count. They are real changes, not empty ones.
- The groups are informal. Each patch is grouped by its title; this isn't an upstream Chromium taxonomy. “Other” is mostly build, packaging and iOS-port plumbing.
- Three telemetry patches aren't the whole story. Most of the work of taking Google out lives in the 23 Google services patches and in the runtime Google services mode, not in patches with “telemetry” in their title.