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WebKit unforked in Chromium

Fri, 08 May 2009 19:24:15 GMT

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.

Chromium commits per week

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:32:53 GMT

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.

Last week in Chromium (Mar 9 - Mar 15)

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:56:57 GMT

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]

Last week in Chromium (Mar 2 - Mar 8)

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:44:01 GMT

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]

Last week in Chromium (Feb 23 - Mar 1)

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:33:58 GMT

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]

Last week in Chromium (Feb 16 - Feb 22)

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:33:34 GMT

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]