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Blink is a browser engine developed as part of the free and open-source Chromium project. Blink is by far the most-used browser engine, due to the market share dominance of Google Chrome and the fact that many other browsers are based on the Chromium code. To create Chrome, Google chose to use Apple's WebKit engine. [2]
CEF 3 is a multi-process implementation based on the Chromium Content API and has performance similar to Google Chrome. [6] It uses asynchronous messaging to communicate between the main application process and one or more render processes (Blink + V8 JavaScript engine).
Other developers created more user-friendly tools beyond chromeos-apk to simplify packaging applications for the ARCon runtime. The first of them is a Chrome Packaged App called twerk [16] and the other is an Android application ARCon Packager [17] It used to be named Chrome APK Packager but the name was changed at Google's request.
Google created V8 for its Chrome browser, and both were first released in 2008. [4] The lead developer of V8 was Lars Bak, and it was named after the powerful car engine. [5] For several years, Chrome was faster than other browsers at executing JavaScript. [6] [7] [8] The V8 assembler is based on the Strongtalk assembler. [9]
On 12 August 2009, a page on Google Code introduced a new project, Pepper, and the associated Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI), [32] "a set of modifications to NPAPI to make plugins more portable and more secure". [33] This extension is designed specifically to ease implementing out-of-process plugin execution. Further, the goals of the project are to ...
Browser plug-ins are a different type of module and no longer supported by the major browsers. [2] [3] One difference is that extensions are distributed as source code, while plug-ins are executables (i.e. object code). [2] The most popular browser, Google Chrome, [4] has over 100,000 extensions available [5] but stopped supporting plug-ins in ...
Prior to 2.0, GWT hosted mode provided a special-purpose "hosted browser" to debug your GWT code. In 2.0, the web page being debugged is viewed within a regular browser. Development mode is supported by using a native-code plugin called the Google Web Toolkit Developer Plugin for many popular browsers. JRE emulation library
WebKit is used as the rendering engine within Safari and was used by Google's Chrome web browser on Windows, macOS, and Android (before version 4.4 KitKat). Chrome used only WebCore, and included its own JavaScript engine named V8 and a multiprocess system. [ 48 ]