It started with my need to debug Chromium’s implementation of OpenXR. I wanted to understand how Chromium interfaces with OpenXR APIs. However, I noticed that only the Android and Windows ports of Chromium currently support OpenXR bindings.…
Sandboxing is a critical feature for ensuring the security and stability of applications that embed web content. In this blog, we will delve into how sandboxing is achieved in the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). All analysis in this blog…
When I started working on analyzing the startup time of a browser, I didn’t have an idea where to start. For me, Performance was a number game and trial-n-error approach. The challenge I was looking into is described in bug 1270977, in whic…
Igalia has been collaborating with Google on the LaCrOS project for over a year and has presented updates of the LaCrOS project in the last two BlinkOns. See ours lightning talk during BlinkOn13 , and our update from BlinkOn14 For the unfam…
We need to access WebAssembly on the Web is through an explicit JS API. Refer https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/JS.md for more information. Create file index.html with content below : Other browsers might give an error as bi…
Download Emscripten SDK Offline Installer and install it. For more information about installation process refer https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/getting_started/index.html Click on Windows -> Search and search for Emscripten C…
Open VS2013 x64 Native Tools Command Prompt C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\Tools\Shortcuts Open C:\cygwin64\Cygwin.bat in VS2013 x64 Native Tools Command Prompt and make sure that compiler and linker are referin…
Install Msys64 on yourmachine. (msys2-x86_64-20150916.exe) Open VS2013 x64 Native Tools Command Prompt C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\Tools\Shortcuts Run C:/msys64/mingw64_shell.bat in VS2013 x64 Native Tools Co…
There are three major components to Chromium’s video implementation: The pipeline is a pull-based media playback engine that abstracts each step of media playback into 6 different filters. The pipeline manages the lifetime of the filters an…