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chrismamo1
chrismamo1

Reputation: 977

How to get started editing the source for Chromium?

I am a somewhat novice programmer (by which I mean I am proficient in many programming languages, but have never taken formal classes) and would like to heavily mod the Chromium web browser for my own purposes. I would need to change the UI significantly, as well as make somewhat major changes to the V8 embedded javascript engine, and I would like to know where I can start. I guess what I really need to know is:

  1. Are there certain programming conventions I should observe to better understand how Chromium works?
  2. Are there any guides/tutorials on how the file system used for the source works?
  3. Are there any guides/tutorials on how to edit/interpret the Chromium source code specifically?
  4. Should I try to mod Chromium, or should I try to build my own web browser using WebKit and V8?
  5. I am also considering basing by browser on FireFox. Would that be easier to get started with? Since I plan on learning as I work, I would like to be able to understand the

Any help would be greatly appreciated, as well as any gems of wisdom from your own, personal experiences.

P.S.: I'm running Ubuntu 11.10, if that makes a difference at all.

Upvotes: 14

Views: 8471

Answers (1)

phtrivier
phtrivier

Reputation: 13357

The Chromium.org site has some resources :

(Sounds RTFM-y, I know, sorry)

That said, you're probably better of tweaking an existing browser codebase rather than creating one "from scratch" - a task which I would assume to be daunting at least.

Upvotes: 5

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