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Makepad creator Rik Arends built a 3D navigable tool that renders up to 2.5 million lines of source code at over 120 frames per second, initially requiring 21GB of RAM before optimizations to indexing and streaming compression brought usage down to 3.5GB. He also tested loading Chromium's 51-million-line codebase, which took about 60 seconds.
Google engineers published the first post in a series explaining Oilpan, the garbage collector Chromium adopted to manage C++ memory tangled with JavaScript objects in the DOM. The post covers Oilpan's mark-sweep design, its cross-component tracing link to V8, and concurrent object reclamation in its sweeper. The team also revealed plans to move Oilpan from Blink into V8 itself as a standalone garbage collection library.
Proofpoint identified an exploit toolkit, dubbed BlueMoon, that chains two Chromium vulnerabilities with a Windows kernel flaw to deploy malware on victims' machines. At least four separate hacking groups, some linked to the Chinese government, have deployed the kit within days of each other, and all three underlying vulnerabilities have only just received patches.
Solipsism Browser is a new open-source Android browser built on Chromium that launched about three months ago, offering extensive customization and design options typically associated with Firefox forks rather than Chrome. Despite its early stage, reviewers note it already feels highly polished and distinct from mainstream Chromium-based browsers.
Microsoft has updated its Edge documentation to formally list which Linux distributions are officially supported, including Ubuntu 18.04+, Debian 10+, openSUSE 15.5+, and Fedora Linux 39+ on 64-bit systems. Edge has run on Linux for years unofficially, but this marks the first formal support list, arriving roughly seven years after Google published a similar list for Chrome.