Chromium -Browser engine

Google announced that Chrome scored "the highest score ever" in the Speedometer 3 benchmark. Speedometer 3 is designed to measure browser performance and is jointly developed by Google, Apple, Intel, Microsoft and Mozilla. This test aims to measure Web responsiveness through multiple workloads such as HTML parsing, JavaScript and JSON processing, pixel rendering, CSS applications, and so on. The optimization implemented by Google in the past year has brought 10% performance improvement since August 2024, which it said will bring better browser experience to end users. It is reported that the team has a good understanding of DOM (document ..

Statcounter, a well-known traffic monitoring agency, announced the market share of global desktop browsers in February 2025: the main data are as follows: Chrome：65.54% Edge：13.89% Safari：8.66% Firefox：6.36% Opera：2.91% 360 Safe：0.88% 2025 In February 2006, the market share of Microsoft's Edge browser reached 13.9%, a record high, an increase of 0.11 percentage points over the previous month. However, compared with the same period last year, Edge's growth in the past 12 months was relatively limited, increasing by only 1.14 percentage points, and its market share throughout the year has never exceeded 14%. Google Chrome is still a desktop browser ..

I believe that Windows users will often experience this kind of "very light" text when using Chromium based browsers. This situation has been greatly optimized after Microsoft Edge participated in the contribution of Chromium: Chrome's official blog introduced the technical details of Chromium's improvement of text rendering on Windows. The following is the original text: Although Skia uses DirectWrite on Windows to implement some functions (such as font search), the final text rasterization is actually directly handled by Skia. One of the main reasons for the problem of "too light color" reported by users is text rendering ..

Google and the Linux Foundation announced the establishment of the "Supporters of Chromium based Browsers" fund, which aims to create a sustainable environment for open source contributions, promote the healthy development of the Chromium ecosystem, and provide financial support for the developer community that hopes to contribute to the project. Chromium project was launched by Google in 2008 and has been used by hundreds of different projects around the world. In 2024, Google submitted more than 100000 pieces of code to Chromium, accounting for about 94% of the total contribution. According to the introduction, Supporters of Chromium Based Browsers will ..

In November, Firefox 131 and Chrome 131 were stabilized. This article will introduce the new Web platform features during the period. WebCodecs API Firefox 133 supports the ImageDecoder, ImageTrackList and ImageTrack interfaces of the WebCodecs API, making it possible to decode images from the main thread and worker thread. The WorkerNavigator.permissions property Firefox 133 also supports WorkerNavigator.permissions @ page margin boxes When printing a web page document or exporting it to PDF, Chrome 131 adds support for page margin boxes. @Page side ..

According to the science and technology media The Information, OpenAI recently considered developing NLWeb (Natural Language Web), a browser combined with its chat robot, and discussed or reached a deal with some companies to enhance the search function, aiming to provide a conversational search experience for websites and applications through natural language processing technology. Users can directly interact with the website through chat to enjoy more convenient and intelligent search services. The report quoted people who have seen the product prototype or design as saying that OpenAI has worked with websites and application developers such as Conde Nast, Redfin, Eventbrite and Priceline ..

Original text: https://www.magiclasso.co/insights/is-chrome-the-new-ie Is Chrome the new IE? Google's Chrome browser accounts for more than 65% of the global browser market, and has now become the object of criticism and contempt, just like Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Does Chrome also face challenges similar to Internet Explorer (IE) and eventually decline? For many years, critics have considered Chrome as the new IE; but why? Erik I (2020):

Statcounter, a well-known traffic monitoring agency, announced the market share of global desktop browsers in May 2024: the main data are as follows: Chrome：64.88% Edge：13.13% Safari：8.8% Firefox：6.64% Opera：3.23% 360 Safe：1.09% …… Last month, Microsoft Edge's global desktop browser market share rose to 13.13%, a record high. In the mobile desktop browser market, Chrome and Safari still dominate. Last month, the market share of Chrome browser was 65.94%, while that of Apple Safari browser was 23.47%. Micro ..

Welcome to read the Open Source Daily produced by OSCHINA editorial department, which is updated once a day. #2024.4.30 Today's key points: The performance of the mysterious big model surpasses many open source models and GPT-4. Just last night, the entire AI community was shocked by a mysterious big model: it is called gpt2 chatbot, and its performance directly surpasses many open source models and GPT-4! Netizens speculated that it was GPT-4.5, GPT-5, or GPT-4+Q *, or GPT-2+Q *. Altman also made a point: "I really like gpt-2gpt2. "Ubuntu 24.10 is coded as" Oracle Oriole "Ubuntu 2

Arc browser has finally released the official version 1.0. Currently, it only supports macOS and iOS, and the Windows version is still under development. Download address: Arc official website | The advertisement on the official website of App Store Arc directly quotes the media comment: Arc is the Chrome replacement I've been waiting for. Arc is a free web browser developed by The Browser Company, a start-up founded by Josh Miller and Hursh Agrawal, and will be released on April 19, 2022 after the closed test. Arc is based on Chromium and written in Swift language. It supports Chrome browsing ..

Microsoft Edge is a powerful browser, which is also loved by many users. It also provides many tools and options that users can customize for a better experience. Recently, one of the many functions has attracted people's attention to privacy, and you may even consider turning it off. Edge has a built-in image enhancement tool that can use super-resolution technology to improve the sharpness, sharpness and contrast of images on the network. Although this function sounds very practical, its actual operation mode is to process in the cloud, rather than on the device side. Microsoft recently updated Edge Canary

Microsoft recently released Microsoft Edge 114 stable version for all supported operating systems and platforms. This update mainly includes the Edge Workspaces function, which allows users to share and synchronize the same set of tabs. Function update Microsoft Edge Workspaces: Edge Workspaces provides a function for users to organize their browsing tasks into special windows. Edge Workspaces allows users to share a set of browser tags, so team members can view the same website and the latest working files in one place and keep them on the same page. Each Edge Workspace is packaged ..

At the Build 2023 conference, Microsoft introduced in detail the new features in the Edge browser, including the redesigned interface and new productivity features. "We have raised the standards of what browsers can and should do in today's digital world to help you, your business, and the websites and web applications you create stay ahead of the pack. ”Some updates include: powerful AI progress has changed the nature of web browsing. Microsoft 365 Copilot, which is currently in the stage of personal preview, will be natively integrated into Microsoft Edge. The project team has also added Microsoft 365 Copilot ..

Microsoft recently released Microsoft Edge 113 stable version for all supported operating systems and platforms. The new version of the browser modifies the Enhanced Security Mode, supports automatic updates on the macOS, and provides some new policies for the system administrator. The main change of Microsoft Edge 113 is the removal of the basic security mode from the browser, which integrates the security level settings of the browser's enhanced security mode. Edge disables Enhanced Security Mode by default on most systems. This function can provide protection against certain threats and disable real-time compilation ..

Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi and Opera, which users are familiar with, are all browser based on Chromium. In our understanding, the performance of these browsers should not be too poor. The main difference between each browser may be the interface and some functions. But judging from recent tests, this is not the case. Yandex Browser is a browser launched by Yandex, a Russian search giant, in 2012. It is also based on Chromium and is characterized by the built-in Kaspersky anti-virus technology to protect user security. Recently, Maxim Smirnov, the head of Yandex browser performance team, was in office ..

We used to joke about the main function of IE browser is to download Chrome browser. I wonder if Microsoft is not satisfied with the current market share of Edge browser, or is afraid that Edge browser will follow the old path of IE. A few days ago, some users found that when they use Edge browser to visit the Chrome download page, Edge browser will display large advertisements to users to retain them and "dissuade" them from using Chrome. Recently, the topic discussion triggered by ChatGPT and the new Bing search engine has led to an increase in the number of downloads of Edge browsers. In addition, Microsoft has also cooperated with Ad

Microsoft recently released the 110 version of Edge Browser. This update has less content, but it still brings several new functions to Edge Browser. The specific update content is as follows: For Edge users who log in with Azure Active Directory account, Edge 110 can now synchronize favorites, passwords, browsing history, open tabs, settings, etc. between all logged in Edge instances by default. Edge will now provide users with a simple way to send files and notes on all logged in mobile and desktop devices. This function is called Drop. Users can use the sidebar（ edge://...

Microsoft announced in 2018 that it would launch the Edge browser based on Chromium, and in January 2020, it launched a new version of Edge. Now, three years later, according to statistics, the market share of Edge's full platform is only 4.23%. If only the desktop side is considered, the market share of Edge is 10.98%, which is far behind that of Chrome, 64.68% and 66.14%. In addition, Edge is now the default browser of Windows system, so the market share and development speed can only be said to be unsatisfactory. To make Edge more competitive with Chrome ..

Microsoft has released another feature update for its browser. The 109 version can now be downloaded from the stable channel, including several feature changes, bug fixes, and security patches. New content in Microsoft Edge 109: account link between personal Microsoft account (MSA) and Azure Active Directory (AAD) account TLS server certificate verification change: in Microsoft Edge 110 version, the certificate trust list and certificate verifier will be decoupled from the root storage of the host operating system. Instead, the default certificate trust list and certificate verifier will be provided by and with the browser. ...

The Google Chrome security team announced that Chromium will support the use of third-party Rust libraries from C++in the project. At present, they are actively seeking to add the Rust tool chain that can be used in the production environment to the Chromium building system, so as to introduce Rust code into Chrome binary files next year. Google only supports the use of third-party Rust libraries temporarily according to the project volume and its own needs of Chromium. Because third-party libraries are written as independent components, they do not need to consider the potential needs of Chromium implementation. This means that they have simpler and more focused on them ..