Browsers

Notes

• document.querySelector("video").playbackRate = 1.4 will increase video playback.

• document.designMode = 'on' lets you edit pages

Links

• How Browsers Work: Behind the scenes of modern web browsers

• Wexond - Extensible and privacy-focused web browser with a totally different user experience.

• Web-ext - Command line tool to help build, run, and test web extensions.

• Facebook’s open source browser contributions (2019)

• WebKit - Open source cross-platform web browser engine.

• Browserless - Fast, scalable, and reliable browser automation built for businesses and developers.

• Polypane - Browser for developers and designers.

• QA Wolf - Create browser tests 10x faster.

• Inside look at modern web browser - Multi part series on how browsers work. Other parts found in left sidebar.

• Life of pixel (2019)

• The whole web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank (2017)

• Things you can do with a browser in 2020

• Karmatic - Easy automatic (headless) browser testing. Powered by Karma, Webpack & Jasmine.

• n.eko - Self hosted virtual browser (rabb.it clone) that runs in docker.

• Playwright - Node library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit browsers.

• browser-extension-template - Barebones boilerplate with webpack, options handler and auto-publishing.

• WebExtension browser API Polyfill - Allows extensions that use the Promise-based WebExtension/BrowserExt API.

• Web Store Upload CLI - CLI wrapper around the Web Store Upload module.

• Kasaya - Scripting language and runtime for browser automation. (HN)

• Browser Startup Comparison (2020)

• WebdriverIO - Next-gen browser automation test automation framework for Node.js.

• rust-minibrowser - Mini-browser written in rust.

• Next - Keyboard-oriented, extensible web-browser designed for power users.

• Browsix - Unix-like operating system for the browser.

• Web Extensions - Shipit - Automate the process of shipping Web Extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Edge.