Split the Alloy runtime into bootstrap and style components. Support
creation of Alloy style browsers and windows with the Chrome runtime.
Chrome runtime (`--enable-chrome-runtime`) + Alloy style
(`--use-alloy-style`) supports Views (`--use-views`), native parent
(`--use-native`) and windowless rendering
(`--off-screen-rendering-enabled`).
Print preview is supported in all cases except with windowless rendering
on all platforms and native parent on MacOS. It is disabled by default
with Alloy style for legacy compatibility. Where supported it can be
enabled or disabled globally using `--[enable|disable]-print-preview` or
configured on a per-RequestContext basis using the
`printing.print_preview_disabled` preference. It also behaves as
expected when triggered via the PDF viewer print button.
Chrome runtime + Alloy style behavior differs from Alloy runtime in the
following significant ways:
- Supports Chrome error pages by default.
- DevTools popups are Chrome style only (cannot be windowless).
- The Alloy extension API will not supported.
Chrome runtime + Alloy style passes all expected Alloy ceftests except
the following:
- `DisplayTest.AutoResize` (Alloy extension API not supported)
- `DownloadTest.*` (Download API not yet supported)
- `ExtensionTest.*` (Alloy extension API not supported)
This change also adds Chrome runtime support for
CefContextMenuHandler::RunContextMenu (see #3293).
This change also explicitly blocks (and doesn't retry) FrameAttached
requests from PDF viewer and print preview excluded frames (see #3664).
Known issues specific to Chrome runtime + Alloy style:
- DevTools popup with windowless rendering doesn't load successfully.
Use windowed rendering or remote debugging as a workaround.
- Chrome style Window with Alloy style BrowserView (`--use-alloy-style
--use-chrome-style-window`) does not show Chrome theme changes.
To test:
- Run `ceftests --enable-chrome-runtime --use-alloy-style
[--use-chrome-style-window] [--use-views|--use-native]
--gtest_filter=...`
- Run `cefclient --enable-chrome-runtime --use-alloy-style
[--use-chrome-style-window]
[--use-views|--use-native|--off-screen-rendering-enabled]`
- Run `cefsimple --enable-chrome-runtime --use-alloy-style [--use-views]`
The call to SelectNativeTheme from ChromeBrowserFrame::Initialized was
causing Widget::ThemeChanged reentrancy via OnColorProviderCacheResetMissed
when running with `--enable-chrome-runtime --use-native`. Make all calls to
ThemeChanged async to avoid this and possible future issues.
Starting with Python 3.12, use of invalid escape sequences in strings
is reported as a SyntaxWarning and will become a SyntaxError at a
later point.
Regular expressions use the backslash character a lot, which result in
warnings of this kind. Python docs recommend to generally use raw
strings for this purpose.
Controls now respect OS and Chrome themes by default for both Alloy
and Chrome runtimes. Chrome themes (mode and colors) can be configured
using the new CefRequestContext::SetChromeColorScheme method. Individual
theme colors can be overridden using the new CefWindowDelegate::
OnThemeColorsChanged and CefWindow::SetThemeColor methods.
The `--force-light-mode` and `--force-dark-mode` command-line flags are
now respected on all platforms as an override for the OS theme.
The current Chrome theme, if any, will take precedence over the OS theme
when determining light/dark status. On Windows and MacOS the titlebar
color will also be updated to match the light/dark theme.
Testable as follows:
- Run: `cefclient --enable-chrome-runtime` OR
`cefclient --use-views --persist-user-preferences --cache-path=...`
- App launches with default OS light/dark theme colors.
- Change OS dark/light theme under system settings. Notice that theme
colors change as expected.
- Right click, select items from the new Theme sub-menu. Notice that
theme colors behave as expected.
- Exit and relaunch the app. Notice that the last-used theme colors are
applied on app restart.
- Add `--background-color=green` to above command-line.
- Perform the same actions as above. Notice that all controls start
and remain green throughout (except some icons with Chrome runtime).
- Add `--force-light-mode` or `--force-dark-mode` to above command-line.
- Perform the same actions as above. Notice that OS dark/light theme
changes are ignored, but Chrome theme changes work as expected.
Chrome design changed to rounded top corners by default with
Chrome Refresh 2023. Square corners look better when the toolbar
is part of a custom Views-hosted layout, like in cefclient.
The client can optionally wait or terminate the render process.
Expose process exit codes via OnRenderProcessTerminated and
CefGetExitCode (fixes#2126).
cefclient: Add a new https://tests/hang page for testing hang behavior.
cefclient: Move message and resource handling to a new BaseClientHandler
class to support loading of test pages in default Chrome UI windows.
cef_string_wrappers.h uses a non-standard header memory.h, which breaks
the build on UCRT environments. Replace <memory.h> include with <cstring>,
which is guaranteed to contain strlen.
Selecting a new user or incognito profile via Chrome UI may result in
the creation of a new Profile object. If that occurs, we should find
or create a matching CefBrowserContext and CefRequestContext instead
of reusing an existing mismatched context (e.g. using the original
context for an incognito window would be a mismatch). If a new
CefRequestContext will be created the client can now implement
CefBrowserProcessHandler::GetDefaultRequestContextHandler() to
provide the handler for that context.
To test with a new user profile:
1. Click "Profile" icon, select "Add". Now you have 2+ profiles.
2. Click "Profile" icon, select the other user name to create a new
window using the other user profile.
3. The new window should launch successfully.
To test with a new incognito profile:
1. Select "New Incognito window" from the 3-dot menu.
2. The new window should launch successfully.
To test DevTools window creation for the new profile:
1. Right-click in the new window, select Inspect.
2. The DevTools window should launch successfully.
Wait for the OnRequestContextInitialized callback before using a
non-global CefRequestContext.
Use default handling of --load-extension for Chrome runtime (fixes#3529).
Chromium considers initially-minimized windows to be visible at
creation time in the Aura layer. This confuses the native occlusion
detector which knows that the OS window is initially hidden due to
IsIconic returning true. Start occlusion tracking with consistent
state by delaying enablement until the initially-minimized window is
restored for the first time.
- Fix UI thread shutdown issues on early app exit.
- views: cefclient: Fix threading requirements in RootWindowViews::Init when
called on the UI thread via OnAlreadyRunningAppRelaunch.
- Adds `--initial-show-state=hidden` support for cefclient and cefsimple
where the window launches as initially hidden (no dock thumbnail).
- Adds `--hide-window-on-close` support for cefclient where clicking the
red traffic light button hides the window instead of closing it.
Frame identifiers have changed from int64_t to string type. This is due
to https://crbug.com/1502660 which removes access to frame routing IDs
in the renderer process. New cross-process frame identifiers are 160-bit
values (32-bit child process ID + 128-bit local frame token) and most
easily represented as strings. All other frame-related expectations and
behaviors remain the same.