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Google's decision to remove XSLT from Chromium-based browsers takes effect around November 17, 2026, prompting developer backlash over broken web compatibility promises and warning banners injected into affected sites.

The developer says the new version of their in-house AI browser, Kaze, will patch Chromium’s C++ code and recompile Electron to add anti-detection capabilities at the browser engine level, enabling direct access to sites such as Xiaohongshu and BOSS Zhipin.

Orange Tsai of DEVCORE Research Team presents a fully handmade, logic-only Microsoft Edge full chain built for Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, chaining 5 bugs and 2 Windows features into a sandbox escape without memory corruption, earning $175,000 and a Pwnie Epic Achievement award.

Gentoo 的 Chromium 包维护者 Sam James 宣布对该包实行「last rites」，由于 Chromium 构建系统复杂、依赖捆绑频繁且用户投诉不断，维护者决定放弃维护该包，包将被屏蔽。

Chromium developer Sharon Yang compared working on the browser at Google versus at the employee-owned cooperative Igalia in a FOSSY 2026 talk titled 'From Corporate to Co-op', highlighting differences in company size, ownership, and compensation while noting both teams contribute to the same open-source codebase.

Gentoo's Chromium package maintainers have announced 'last rites' for the browser, citing the difficulty of packaging Chromium's complex build system and bundled dependencies, effectively orphaning the package for source-based Gentoo users.

Google is ending ChromeOS update support in mid-2034 for all Chromebooks, breaking its prior promise of 10 years of updates for every device, with only vague commitments about migration paths to the new Android-based Googlebook OS.

Tiller 是一个基于 Chromium 引擎的 macOS 浏览器，使用原生 Swift/AppKit 构建界面，并内置可驱动浏览器的 agent 面板，支持 Qoder CLI、Claude Code、Codex 等代理，以及 MCP 服务器暴露浏览器工具。

A blog post details how a vulnerable Twitch chat overlay in OBS allowed remote code execution on a streamer's PC via an unsandboxed Chromium renderer and a known V8 bug.

This blog post from V8 introduces Oilpan, a high-performance garbage collector for C++ used in Chromium, detailing its principles, features, and upcoming move to a library for broader developer access.

Collabora partnered with Google to deliver the first RDK-based reference platform for Chrobalt, the next-generation web engine for YouTube on living room devices.

Firefox remains the only major browser supporting uBlock Origin as Chromium-based browsers like Microsoft Edge phase it out under Manifest V3, making it the sole choice for full ad-blocking capabilities.

Windows 11's built-in Weather app can consume over 1 GB of RAM, about five times more than macOS's Weather app, due to its WebView2-based non-native architecture. This could noticeably impact lower-end PCs with 8-16 GB of RAM.

This article breaks down the five infrastructure layers required to run production web agents beyond just a browser, covering warm pools, isolation, identity, observability, and model gateways, and discusses when it makes sense to build vs. buy.

Running Tldraw on a ReMarkable tablet using a barebone Chromium port, with some ghosting and lag.

CloakBrowser is an open-source fingerprint browser deeply customized from Chromium, designed for cross-border e-commerce and multi-account management. It offers top-notch anti-association and anti-detection capabilities, supports all platforms, and allows migrating existing environments with a single line of code.

Chromium 148 introduces a change to Math.tanh that can be used to fingerprint the underlying operating system, raising privacy concerns.

The article explains how the readonly property `scrollHeight` can cause performance issues by triggering synchronous layout updates in Chromium, and suggests using a large number instead of recalculating scrollHeight frequently.

Fortress is a stealth Chromium engine that modifies browser fingerprints at the C++ level to help scrapers and browser agents avoid detection by bot detectors like Cloudflare Turnstile, CreepJS, and Sannysoft. It operates as a drop-in CDP replacement for Playwright and Puppeteer.

Open-sourced a custom Chromium build designed for AI agent browsing tasks, enabling developers to automate web interactions.