Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?

As Darin mentioned on chromium-dev, Chromium no longer uses a forked copy of WebKit. We now pull directly from svn.webkit.org and all changes to WebCore will be upstreamed before being pulled into Chromium.

This is great news because

• It forces Chromium developers to contribute more to the WebKit project and write better cross platform patches.
• Cross platform code in WebCore will get reviewed by WebKit folks.
• Updating the version of WebKit that Chromium uses will be easier.

I’ve been unable to keep up with the weekly summary of Chromium commits since I no longer have a 60 minute commute to work on a bus. Instead, here’s a graph of commits per week.

The tree moves fast.

• Support loading extensions into the bookmark toolbar.
  [r11294 mpcomplete]
• Implement a GTK LocationBarView and Autocomplete{Edit,Popup}View.
  [r11323 deanm]
• Changes docking in the following ways
  [r11391 sky]
• Fix horizontal scrolling to not be reversed on tilt wheel mice and old Thinkpads.
  [r11395 pkasting]
• Stop history search going on beyond the start of history.
  [r11411 glen]
• Don’t leak visited site information from original profile to OTR profile.
  [r11613 abarth]
• Fix a crash when with chrome-ui://about/” or anything invalid
  [r11634 amit]
• This CL fixes issue 8684 — RTL Regression: Text should be right aligned for RTL languages on “Bookmark Manager”
  [r11639 xji]
• RSS feed support (part 1)
  [r11672 finnur]
• Disallows dragging from the bookmark bar when the bookmark bar is closed or animating.
  [r11687 sky]

• Support DWM switching.
  [r10757 ben]
• Don’t expose —single-process and —in-process-plugins for official Chrome releases.
  [r10771 jam]
• Make history and downloads open once per window unless the user modifies their view.
  [r10782 glen]
• Fixes regression where escape was not removing a newly bookmarked page.
  [r10803 sky]
• Add a command line flag —v8-proxy-resolver, to select the new PAC implementation.
  [r10827 ericroman]
• Initial checkin of the out of process worker implementation.
  [r10847 jam]
• Implement GM_xmlhttpRequest
  [r10886 aa]
• Add trivial theming support in extensions. NOTE: This is not final API. It *will* change. It’s purely for testing purposes.
  [r10913 erikkay]
• Various fixes to mouse wheel scrolling
  [r10959 pkasting]
• Make startup_tests build and run on Linux (except reference tests).
  [r10978 phajdan.jr]
• make JavaScript alerts reflect the URL of the frame they came from, not the enclosing frame.”
  [r11026 brettw]
• Developer tools frontend is served from chrome-ui://devtools/tools.html
  [r11109 yurys]
• Enable interstitial pages for SSL certificate errors on Linux.
  [r11177 markus]
• Fix memory leak of “screen size bitmap” (e.g. 1.5M if 750x548) that happened on *every page view* on OSX.
  [r11196 jrg]

• Fullscreen mode UI.
  [r10214 pkasting]
• Make download manager treat mixed-case extensions the same as lower-case extensions when judging whether a file is executable.
  [r10246 estade]
• Fix for Sandboxed WebKit on OS X
  [r10259 jeremy]
• Implement X509Certificate::Persist. This lets the browser read gmail on linux.
  [r10269 dkegel]
• Fixing 8010: Missing options from Options dlg.
  [r10294 finnur]
• Get save page working on posix.
  [r10314 estade]
• Enable history and downloads by default, port NewTabUI from DOMUIHost to DOMUI.
  [r10344 glen]
• Linux: server side backing stores
  [r10369 agl]
• Hide profiles behind a command-line switch since the user-data-dir stuff wouldn’t work on Mac.
  [r10432 munjal]
• Makes it so windows opened from links in Windows Live Messenger cause the window to appear instead of being invisible.
  [r10502 ben]
• Enable —single-process for Mac and Linux.
  [r10559 shess]
• Don’t send WebInputEvents from the renderer to the browser.
  [r10563 erg]
• Linux: first part of removing GTK from the renderer
  [r10567 agl]

• Sad Tab view for the Mac.
  [r9876 avi]
• Create a menu wrapper class for GTK menus, and use it for the page and app menus.
  [r9893 erg]
• Fix crasher in GetDefaultSearchEngineName() in first run bubble.
  [r9916 cpu]
• HtmlDialogs had focus problems. They would not be focused when shown and tab traversal was not working.
  [r9925 jcampan]
• Preliminary fullscreen mode support.
  [r9950 pkasting]
• Fix save complete .html page.
  [r9988 estade]
• Clean up dns prefetch code, and also port it.
  [r10021 phajdan.jr]
• Update the table of RAM vs number of renderers
  [r10024 cpu]
• Initial checkin of the HTML downloads UI.
  [r10050 glen]
• Bitmap transport. This patch reworks bitmap transport on all platforms.
  [r10071 agl]