General Architecture

• General Architecture

  • Conventions and patterns for multi-platform development

  • Extension Security Architecture: How the extension system helps reduce the severity of extension vulnerabilities

  • HW Video Acceleration in Chrom{e,ium}{,OS}

  • Inter-process Communication: How the browser, renderer, and plugin processes communicate

  • Multi-process Resource Loading: How pages and images are loaded from the network into the renderer

  • Plugin Architecture

  • Process Models: Our strategies for creating new renderer processes

  • Profile Architecture

  • SafeBrowsing

  • Sandbox

  • Security Architecture: How Chromium's sandboxed rendering engine helps protect against malware

  • Startup

  • Threading: How to use threads in Chromium Also see the documentation for V8, which is the JavaScript engine used within Chromium.