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How Browsers Work

This comprehensive primer on the internal operations of WebKit and Gecko is the result of much research done by Israeli developer Tali Garsiel. Over a few years, she reviewed all the published data about browser internals and spent a lot of time reading web browser source code. She wrote:
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Aug 17, 2011How Browsers Work by martius63336
Feb 14, 2012How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers by Garbage28241

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