The compositor is moving into a dedicated helper process. That requires
a process to launch, channels for Browser and WebContent to talk to it
over, and client proxies on each side. Land all of that as an inert
scaffold first, gated behind --enable-compositor-process, so the default
rendering path is unchanged and later commits can fill in the protocol,
the service-side state, and the runtime switch against a stable target.
Add a repeatable blocker-list option that reads local list files in the
browser process. The files are concatenated into one buffer and shared
with WebContent through the content blocker IPC path when view options
are applied.
Parse the buffer in WebContent and reject malformed UTF-8 without
replacing the currently installed rules.
Split cosmetic blocker rules out from network patterns. Expose matching
rules as user CSS through StyleScope.
Invalidate affected user style caches when blocker state changes.
Generated cosmetic CSS now respects disabled content blocking.
Rename the local content blocking implementation and its tests from
ContentFilter to ContentBlocker while keeping the existing substring
matcher backend and behavior.
Update the WebContent IPC method, WebView option names, debug toggle,
and default config file name to use content blocker terminology.
Most of this functionality was already implicitly disallowed for
element-reference pseudo-elements by the fact that we weren't creating
entries in `m_pseudo_element_data` for them, but we need to explicitly
limit it in preparation of creating those entries.
Due to the above this is mostly non-functional apart from a regression
where we no longer support custom properties on element-reference
pseudo-elements. Previously when setting custom properties for an
element-reference pseudo-element we would call `ensure_pseudo_element()`
which created a synthetic pseudo-element entry distinct from the
referenced element which only stored custom property data - this was
clearly wrong and will be implemented properly in a future commit.
LibWeb still exposed the concrete CompositorThread to Page,
Navigable, and EventHandler, so compositor IPC would have leaked the
thread implementation into callers. The old thread APIs also bundled
page presentation callbacks and main-thread wakeups into the same
object, which made it awkward for WebContent to put an actor boundary
in between.
Introduce CompositorHost and context handles as the caller-facing API,
and move shared compositor protocol values out of CompositorThread. Add
WebContentCompositor IPC endpoints and route PageHost through a paired
in-process transport. The actor owns CompositorThread with explicit
main-thread and UI presentation clients, while screenshot completion is
serialized on the WebContent event loop using request IDs.
The intention for introducing IPC here is to prepare for moving the
compositor thread into a separate process.
Load the browser-generated crash page as a synthetic response for the
URL that was active when WebContent exited. This keeps the session
history entry, response URL, and created Document aligned with the same
navigation URL, so reload targets the original page without creating a
local document for an HTTP(S) history entry.
Suppress history metadata updates from the generated page and declare
an inert rel=icon. Fallback favicon loading now follows the HTML
condition that no link with the icon keyword exists, which avoids the
credentialed /favicon.ico request from the crashed origin.
Route mouse events over the compositor IPC path while async scrolling is
enabled, and let the compositor capture viewport scrollbar drags before
the main-thread event path sees them. Dragging mutates the compositor
scroll tree and schedules an async-scroll present, so the viewport thumb
and content can move without a main-thread round trip.
Keep normal main-thread event handling for misses and preserve the wheel
bypass behavior for page events.
The synchronous wheel path treats wheel deltas as CSS-pixel scroll
distances, while the async compositor scroll tree mutates scroll state
stored in device pixels. Passing the same unscaled delta into the
compositor made async scrolling advance too little whenever
device pixels per CSSPixel was greater than 1, so scrolling felt slower
than with async scrolling disabled.
Convert wheel deltas before crossing the compositor boundary and make
the compositor IPC carry only the device-pixel position and delta it
needs. This keeps AsyncScrollTree device-pixel native and makes async
viewport scrolling match the synchronous path across high-DPI displays
and page zoom levels.
Exit WebContent immediately when either browser-side IPC peer
disconnects. Plumb Unix process exit status through LibWebView so the
browser process can tell clean owner-driven shutdown apart from renderer
crashes.
This keeps nonzero exits and signal deaths reported as crashes, while
letting status 0 exits disappear without making test-web report the page
as crashed.
Trace the compositor state transitions that matter once presentation and
async scrolling share one path: page registration, backing-store swaps,
did_paint delivery, ready_to_paint acknowledgements, wheel admission,
and deferred presents waiting for reusable bitmaps.
Keep the logs under COMPOSITOR_DEBUG and use the [Compositor] prefix
consistently. The trace is about ownership and backpressure instead of
dumping every wheel event detail, so stalls can be diagnosed without
reintroducing noisy async-scrolling-only logging.
Send the experimental UI-process wheel bypass to WebContent over the
Compositor IPC connection instead of adding a separate async scrolling
transport. This keeps bypass admission on the channel that owns bitmaps
and ready_to_paint acknowledgements.
If the compositor rejects the wheel, LibWebView falls back to regular
input delivery. If it accepts, mark the queued DOM event as having
already performed its default action so dispatch preserves ordering
without scrolling twice.
Introduce a dedicated Compositor IPC channel between the UI process and
WebContent. Use it for backing-store setup, presented bitmap delivery,
and bitmap-specific ready_to_paint acknowledgements.
This makes CompositorThread the single owner of frame presentation
bookkeeping before async scrolling starts producing frames without the
main thread.
Remove old paint and backing-store messages from WebContentClient and
PageClient so the UI process no longer observes two presentation
protocols.
The Paintable tree and its supplemental painting data structures were
GC allocated because that was the easiest way to manage it and avoid
leaks introduced by ref cycles. This included the Paintable subclasses
themselves plus StackingContext, ChromeWidget, Scrollbar, ResizeHandle,
and scroll-frame state.
We are now trying to reduce GC allocation churn on layout and painting
updates, so keeping this short-lived rendering tree outside the JS heap
is a better fit. Move Paintable to RefCountedTreeNode, make painting
helpers ref-counted or weakly reference Paintables, and update the
layout and event-handler call sites to use RefPtr/WeakPtr ownership.
Previously a fixed-rate paint refresh timer kept queueing rendering
update tasks at the maximum configured frame rate, regardless of whether
anything had actually changed. This wasted CPU on idle pages, which
spend most of their time in a steady state where no style, layout, or
paint work is needed.
Replace the repeating timer with a single-shot frame timer driven by
PageClient::request_frame(). A rendering update is now scheduled only
when something requires one. The configured maximum frame rate is
preserved as a ceiling on how closely consecutive frames can follow each
other.
Previously, `AnonymousBuffer::create_with_size(0)` returned an error
because POSIX `mmap` rejects a zero length with `EINVAL`, and Windows
`CreateFileMapping` rejects a zero maximum size for an anonymous
mapping. This caused a crash when using `--headless=text` with zero
size pages like `about:blank`.
Route BroadcastChannel messages over IPC so matching channels can
receive them across WebContent and WebWorker processes, rather than only
within a single process.
Each channel now serializes its payload, sends it upward over IPC, and
receiving processes deliver it locally after matching by storage key and
channel name.
Registering multiple Mach port names with the bootstrap server at
runtime is not how macOS expects it to be used — the bootstrap server
is meant for static services, and the only reason we used it originally
was so child processes could reach back to the UI process.
Remove bootstrap_transport_over_socket(), which had both sides register
dynamic names with the bootstrap server and exchange them over a socket.
Instead, WebDriver and BrowserProcess connections now go through
MachPortServer instances directly. When a non-child process contacts a
MachPortServer, the server creates a port pair on demand (detected via
sysctl ppid check) and returns the local half immediately. This keeps
bootstrap server usage limited to the one original case: child processes
looking up their parent's MachPortServer.
WebDriver Session now runs its own MachPortServer per session.
--webdriver-content-path becomes --webdriver-mach-server-name on macOS.
Spare WebContent launches are skipped when a WebDriver session is active
to avoid bootstrap races.
Instead of immediately firing fullscreenchange, defer that until
WebContent's client has confirmed that it is in fullscreen for the
content. The fullscreenchange is fired by the viewport change, so in
cases where the fullscreen transition is instantaneous (i.e. the
fullscreen state is entered at the exact moment the viewport expands),
the resize event should precede the fullscreenchange event, as the spec
requires.
This fixes the WPT element-request-fullscreen-timing.html test, which
was previously succeeding by accident because we were immediately
fullscreenchange upon requestFullscreen() being called, instead of
following spec and doing the viewport (window) resize in parallel. The
WPT test was actually initially intended to assert that the
fullscreenchange event follows the resize event, but the WPT runner
didn't actually have a different resolution for normal vs fullscreen
viewports, so the resize event doesn't actually fire in their setup. In
our headless mode, the default viewport is 800x600, and the fullscreen
viewport is 1920x1080, so we do fire a resize event when entering
fullscreen. Therefore, that imported test is reverted to assert that
the resize precedes the fullscreenchange.
Add IPC::TransportHandle as an abstraction for passing IPC
transports through .ipc messages. This replaces IPC::File at
all sites where a transport (not a generic file) is being
transferred between processes.
TransportHandle provides from_transport(),
clone_from_transport(), and create_transport() methods that
encapsulate the fd-to-socket-to-transport conversion in one
place. This is preparatory work for Mach port support on
macOS -- when that lands, only TransportHandle's internals
need to change while all .ipc definitions and call sites
remain untouched.
The set_viewport_size and set_device_pixel_ratio IPC messages were sent
separately, potentially causing a race condition when the DPR changes
(e.g. moving a window between screens): the DPR message would arrive
and use a stale viewport size, computing a temporarily wrong CSS
viewport. Combine both into a single set_viewport IPC that updates the
device viewport size and DPR together.
This will allow the UI to request WebContent to properly close the top
level traversable when closing a tab. For example, this allows the site
to ask if the user is sure they want to leave, closes WebSocket
connections and more.
Replace per-element OrderedHashMap storage for custom properties with
a RefCounted chain (CustomPropertyData) that enables structural
sharing. Each chain node stores only the properties declared directly
on its element, with a parent pointer to the inherited chain.
Elements that don't override any custom properties share the parent's
data directly (just a RefPtr copy). During cascade, only entries that
actually differ from the parent are stored in own_values - the rest
are inherited through the chain. During var() resolution, resolved
values are compared against the parent's and matching entries are
dropped, enabling further sharing.
The chain uses a depth limit (max 32) with flattening, plus
absorption of small parent nodes (threshold 8) to keep lookups fast.
This reduces custom property memory from ~79 MB to ~5.7 MB on
cloudflare.com.
Remove 11 heavy includes from Document.h that were only needed for
pointer/reference types (already forward-declared in Forward.h), and
extract the nested ViewportClient interface to a standalone header.
This reduces Document.h's recompilation cascade from ~1228 files to
~717 files (42% reduction). Headers like BrowsingContext.h that were
previously transitively included see even larger improvements (from
~1228 down to ~73 dependents).
This patch introduces a cookie cache in the WebContent process to reduce
blocking IPC calls when JS accesses document.cookie. The UI process now
maintains a cookie version counter per-domain in shared memory. When JS
reads document.cookie, we check whether we have a valid cached cookie by
comparing the current shared version to the last used version. If they
match, the cached cookie is returned without IPC.
This optimization is based on Chromium's shared versioning, in which it
was observed that 87% of document.cookie accesses were redundant. See:
https://blog.chromium.org/2024/06/introducing-shared-memory-versioning-to.html
Note that this cache only supports document.cookie, not HTTP Cookie
headers. HTTP cookies are attached to requests with varying URLs and
paths. The cookies that match the document URL might not match the
request URL, which we wouldn't know from WebContent. So attaching the
cached document cookie would be incorrect.
On https://twinings.co.uk, we see approximately 600 document.cookie
requests while the page loads. This patch reduces the time spent in
the document.cookie getter from ~45ms to 2-3ms.
These can get very large, exceeding the new IPC message size limits.
Instead of serializing them into messages (which was silly anyway)
we now send them as Core::AnonymousBuffer which uses shared memory.
When cookies change or expire, we currently send a list of all changed
cookies to all WebContent processes. We then filter that list in the
WebContent process for cookies that match the page's URL before sending
out cookie change events to JS.
We now perform this filtering in the UI process, so each WebContent
process only receives the cookies it would be interested in, if any.
This serves two purposes:
1. Less IPC chatter.
2. This will let each ViewImplementation know that its cookie value has
actually changed.
(2) is for an upcoming change that will introduce a cookie cache, and
will allow each view to know it should bust that cache.
Note that for this filtering to work, we must iterate ViewImplementation
instances rather than WebContentClient in order to have the view's URL.
We must then associate the IPC with the view's page ID.
No changes to the /cookiestore WPT subtests.
To avoid unnecessary IPC traffic, we now only send network response
bodies when a DevTools client is connected.
This requires tracking DevTools connection state in ViewImplementation
so we can propagate it to new WebContent processes created during
cross-site navigation.
Previously, console messages were sent using an index-based system where
DevTools would be notified of new message indices and then request them
in batches. This created synchronization issues during page navigation
when the WebContent process resets while DevTools still has stale index
state.
This changes to a push-based model where console messages are sent
immediately as resources when they are logged, matching how Firefox
DevTools handles console messages. Each message is pushed through IPC
and forwarded to DevTools as a "console-message" or "error-message"
resource.
This eliminates the need for index tracking in FrameActor and simplifies
the entire console message pipeline from WebContent through to DevTools.
Computing the font for an element in `compute_font` is premature since
we are yet to apply animated properties - instead we should compute the
value on the fly (with a cache to avoid unnecessary work) to ensure we
are respecting the latest values
Prevents observably calling Trusted Types, which can run arbitrary JS,
cause crashes due to use of MUST and allow arbitrary JS to modify
internal elements.
