Chromium Blog

Hello Firefox, this is Chrome calling

For the first time, Chrome and Firefox can “talk” to each other via WebRTC . WebRTC is a new set of technologies that brings clear crisp voi...

Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project

WebKit is a lightweight yet powerful rendering engine that emerged out of KHTML in 2001. Its flexibility, performance and thoughtful desig...

Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly

Historically, running native code on the web required a browser plugin. In 2013, we introduced the PNaCl sandbox to provide a means of bui...

Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome

The web’s open and community-driven development model is a key factor in its rapid evolution and ubiquitous adoption. The WebM Project was ...

Hello HTTP/2, Goodbye SPDY

Building a more private web: A path towards making third party cookies obsolete

In August, we announced a new initiative (known as Privacy Sandbox) to develop a set of open standards to fundamentally enhance privacy on...

An Update on the Lock Icon

Editor’s note: based on industry research (from Chrome and others), and the ubiquity of HTTPS, we will be replacing the lock icon in Chrome’...

Moving towards a faster web

Speed has been one of Chrome’s core principles since the beginning - we’re constantly working to give users an experience that is instant a...

New JavaScript techniques for rapid page loads

Posted by Marja Hölttä and Daniel Vogelheim, Resident Loader Coders Speed has always been one of Chrome's primary missions, ever since it...

From Chrome Apps to the Web

Note: The timeline has been updated. Please see our October 2021 post for more details. We have always believed in making the open, inter...

A new speed milestone for Chrome

Everyday, billions of people around the world turn to Chrome to get things done quickly on their devices, whether shopping for a new pair o...

Portable Native Client

Native Client (NaCl) brings the performance and low-level control of native code to modern web browsers, without sacrificing the security b...

Faster 3D rendering with WebGL 2.0

The WebGL JavaScript API exposes hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the web. Chrome 56 brings support for WebGL 2.0 , a major upgrade to ...

Updates to form controls and focus

HTML form controls provide the backbone for much of the web's interactivity. They're easy for developers to use, have built-in accessibilit...

Web Vitals: essential metrics for a healthy site

Optimizing for quality of user experience is key to the long-term success of any site on the web. Through our ongoing engagement and coll...

A 2x Faster Web

Today we'd like to share with the web community information about SPDY, pronounced "SPeeDY", an early-stage research project that is part of...

Reducing power consumption for background tabs

Efficient power usage is an important aspect of speed, one of Chrome’s key pillars . To prolong battery life, Chrome should minimize power ...

Responsive Web Design with DevTools' Device Mode

We all develop websites on our desktop and laptop machines, so we tend to initially develop for the desktop experience. But that's increasin...

Chrome 89 Beta: advanced hardware interactions, web sharing on desktop

Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Wi...

Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default

Incredibly, it’s been nearly a decade since we launched the Chrome extensions system. Thanks to the hard work and innovation of our deve...

HTML5 Rocks: A resource for open web developers

Because HTML5 and its related technologies cover so much ground, it can be a real challenge to get up to speed on them. That’s why today we'...

Retiring Chrome Frame

The main goal of the Chromium project has always been to help unlock the potential of the open web. We work closely with the industry to st...

Chromium Blog: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change

There has been a lot of discussion regarding this week’s announcement of upcoming changes to HTML video codec support in Chrome. The future...

Get Ready for New SameSite=None; Secure Cookie Settings

UPDATE (10/28/2019): We've revised the 2nd and 3rd bullet points in the section "How to Prepare; Known Complexities" below. In May, Chrome ...

Chrome Developer Tools: Back to Basics

It’s been an exciting past few months in the Google Chrome Developer Tools world as we keep adding new features, while polishing up existin...

Manifest V3 now available on M88 Beta

With hundreds of millions of people using over 250,000 items in the Chrome Web Store, extensions have become essential to how m...

RenderingNG: An architecture that makes and keeps Chrome fast for the long term

Our continual investments in the performance of Chrome have led to significant improvements in battery life, memory, and the speed of the we...

Google Chrome for Linux goes stable

Since the initial beta release of Google Chrome for Linux last December , we've been hard at work adding the polish necessary to upgrade th...

Google's "Chrome Frame" plugin for IE no longer requires admin rights

We released Google Chrome Frame in September 2009 to expand the reach of modern web technologies and help developers take advantage of HTML...

Moving Towards a More Secure Web

To help users browse the web safely, Chrome indicates connection security with an icon in the address bar. Historically, Chrome has not exp...