Hacker News with Generative AI: Chromium

Visualizing entire Chromium include graph (bkryza.com)
In this post I will describe the process of visualizing the Chromium include graph with the help of one of my side projects - clang-include-graph.

Software, Visualization, Chromium, Programming, Open Source

67 points by bkryza 2 days ago | 4 comments

Detect and crash Chromium bots (castle.io)
We recently stumbled across a bug on the Chromium bug tracker where a short JavaScript snippet can crash headless Chromium browsers like those used by Puppeteer and Playwright.

Security, Web Development, Chromium, Automation

146 points by avastel 16 days ago | 47 comments

Finding a Bug in Chromium (bou.ke)
This week I’ve submitted a report for a bug I found in Chromium, the first time I’ve done so. I wanted to show how I found the bug and to spread … to hopefully speed up the resolution of it.

Software, Debugging, Chromium, Open Source

65 points by bouk 18 days ago | 12 comments

The Chromium Security Paradox (island.io)
The Chromium project is renowned for pioneering some of the most advanced browser security technologies in the world. Yet, its threat model is quite limited. Why is that? A closer look via Chromium’s Issue Tracker.

Security, Browsers, Chromium, Open Source, Threat Modeling

8 points by wild_pointer 21 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: We Put Chromium on a Unikernel (OSS Apache 2.0) (github.com/onkernel)
Kernel provides sandboxed, ready-to-use Chrome browser environments for agentic workflows that need to access the Internet. containers/docker/Dockerfile and unikernels/unikraft-cu are the core infra that powers our hosted services.

Unikernels, Chromium, Open Source, Containers

132 points by juecd 37 days ago | 46 comments

Oldest Chromium issue fixed after 17 years (chromium.org)
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Software, Open Source, Web Browsers, Chromium, Bug Fixes

10 points by syhol 52 days ago | 5 comments

Trivalent – A Hardened Chromium for Desktop Linux inspired by Vanadium (github.com/secureblue)
A hardened chromium for desktop Linux inspired by Vanadium, using Fedora's Chromium as a base. Intended for use with hardened_malloc as packaged and provided by secureblue.

Linux, Chromium, Security, Open Source, Software

3 points by ementally 127 days ago | 0 comments

Linux Foundation Announces the Launch of Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers (linuxfoundation.org)

Linux, Open Source, Web Browsers, Chromium

3 points by sdht0 133 days ago | 2 comments

Google launches a 'neutral' Chromium development fund (theverge.com)
Google is partnering with The Linux Foundation to launch an initiative meant to “fund open development and enhance projects” in the Chromium ecosystem, according to an announcement on Thursday.

Google, Open Source, Chromium, Linux Foundation, Funding

6 points by popey 134 days ago | 1 comments

Linux Foundation Announces the Launch of Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers (linuxfoundation.org)
SAN FRANCISCO – January 9, 2025 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the launch of Supporters of Chromium-Based Bowsers. This initiative aims to fund open development and enhance projects within the Chromium ecosystem, ensuring broad support and sustainability for open source contributions that will drive technological advancement.

Open Source, Chromium, Linux Foundation, Browsers

9 points by marcodiego 134 days ago | 2 comments

Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers (chromium.org)

Web Browsers, Chromium, Open Source

20 points by feross 134 days ago | 5 comments

macOS Packaging for Ungoogled-Chromium (github.com/ungoogled-software)
macOS packaging for ungoogled-chromium.

macOS, Open Source, Chromium, Privacy

73 points by keepamovin 169 days ago | 101 comments

Electron Spins: a special case of Chromium mods (littlebearlabs.io)
Chromium is a powerful project, implementing functionality that's critical to the web and web-related technologies.

Chromium, Web Development, Open Source, Software, Hardware

30 points by _feynon 187 days ago | 7 comments

Forking Chromium to Bolt on a High-Throughput Shared Memory Ringbuffer (recall.ai)
Recall.ai powers meeting bots for hundreds of companies. We capture millions of meetings per month, and operate enormous infrastructure to do so.

Software, Chromium, High-Throughput, Shared Memory, Ringbuffer

7 points by davidgu 203 days ago | 0 comments

Chromium uses web search for .internal TLD instead of opening URL (chromium.org)

Chromium, Web Search, Domain Names, Security

116 points by nh2 212 days ago | 85 comments

A hardened Chromium for desktop Linux inspired by Vanadium (github.com/secureblue)
A hardened chromium for desktop Linux inspired by Vanadium, using Fedora's Chromium as a base. Intended for use with hardened_malloc as packaged and provided by secureblue.

Linux, Chromium, Security, Open Source

13 points by keepamovin 223 days ago | 8 comments

Show HN: dn – full-text search and archiving for your Chromium-based browser (github.com/dosyago)

Web Browsers, Search, Open Source, Software, Chromium

33 points by keepamovin 274 days ago | 10 comments

Chromium has over 1600 command-line switches (peter.sh)

Chromium, Command-line Interface, Software, Web Browsers

57 points by ysabri 298 days ago | 42 comments

Building Chromium at a distro? Here's your copium (liberda.nl)

Operating Systems, Linux, Chromium

6 points by mananaysiempre 318 days ago | 1 comments

Run Chromium on Vercel without external services (vercel.app)