Chromium Design Documents

 

Design Documents

Start here: Multi-process Architecture: Describes the high-level architecture of Chromium Note: Most of the rest of the design documents assume familiarity with the concepts explained in this document. How Chromium Displays Web Pages: Bottom-to-top overview of how WebKit is embedded in Chromium Architecture Process Models: Our strategies for creating new renderer processes Conventions and patterns for multi-platform development Inter-process Communication: How the browser, renderer, and plugin processes communicate Threading: How to use threads in Chromium Multi-process Resource Loading: How pages and images are loaded from the network into the renderer Security Architecture: How Chromium's sandboxed rendering engine helps protect against malware Extension Security Architecture: How the extension system helps reduce the severity of extension vulnerabilities Plugin Architecture Profile Architecture Sandbox Startup SafeBrowsing Also see the documentation for V8, which is the JavaScript engine used within Chromium. UI Framework Views framework: Our UI layout layer used on Windows/Chrome OS. views Windowing system: How to build dialog boxes and other windowed UI using views. Aura: Chrome's next generation hardware accelerated UI framework, and the new ChromeOS window manager built using it. NativeControls: using platform-native widgets in views. Feature-specific Chromium Print Proxy: Enables a cloud print service for legacy printers and future cloud-aware printers. Browser Window Info Bars Find Bar UI Mirroring Infrastructure: Describes the UI framework in ChromeViews that allows mirroring the browser UI in RTL locales such as Hebrew and Arabic. UI Localization: Describes how localized strings get added to Chromium. Constrained Popup Windows Memory Usage Backgrounder: Some information on how we measure memory in Chromium. DNS Prefetching: Reducing perceived latency by resolving domain names before a user tries to follow a link Form Autofill: A feature to automatically fill out an html form with appropriate data. Graphics: GPU Accelerated Compositing in Chrome Rendering Architecture Diagrams Graphics and Skia GPU Command Buffer Omnibox Autocomplete: While typing into the omnibox, Chromium searches for and suggests possible completions. HistoryQuickProvider: Suggests completions from the user's historical site visits. Network stack: Network Stack Objectives Crypto Disk Cache Out of Process Proxy Resolving Draft [unimplemented] Proxy Settings and Fallback Debugging network proxy problems HTTP Authentication SSL Client Authentication View network internals tool Make the web faster with SPDY pages Cookie storage and retrieval Web Socket: Enables Web applications to maintain bidirectional communications with server-side processes. Tab to search: How to have the Omnibox automatically provide tab to search for your site. User scripts: Information on Chromium's support for user scripts. Extensions: Design documents and proposed APIs. Accessibility: An outline of current (and coming) accessibility support. Linux Resources and Localized Strings: Loading data resources and localized strings on Linux. Tabtastic2 Requirements Printing Software Updates: Courgette Sync Desktop Notifications Video Geolocation: Adding support for W3C Geolocation API using native WebKit bindings. IDN in Google Chrome IndexedDB (early draft) Replace the modal cookie prompt Pepper plugin implementation Temporary downloads Print Preview about:conflicts Secure Web Proxy Prerender Service Processes Multiple Profiles Omnibox/IME Coordination Mouse Lock Preferences Reserved Keys Mac OS X Sandboxing Design Password Manager/Keychain Integration Mac specific notes on UI Localization Command Dispatching Tab Strip Design (Includes tab layout and tab dragging) BrowserWindowController Object Ownership AppleScript Support Wrench Menu Buttons Confirm to Quit Draft document on Mac App Mode Draft document on Mac Fullscreen Mode OS X Interprocess Communication (Obsolete) Testing Layout test results dashboard Generic theme for Test Shell Moving LayoutTests fully upstream Other In progress refactoring of key browser-process architecture for porting 64-bit Support Network Experiments Design docs that still need to be written (wiki)