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.