Viewfinder
chromium
Viewfinder | chromium | |
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12 | 224 | |
1,520 | 17,621 | |
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9.5 | 10.0 | |
about 2 years ago | 4 days ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Viewfinder
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π DocumentSpark, Simple secure document viewing server.
Converts a document to a picture of its pages. View a document from the internet without downloading or running it on your machine, and without needing a word processor, spreadsheet app, or PDF viewer installed. This provides content disarm and reconstruction, or CDR. Also known as p2., this code is deployed commercially by Dosyago in their ViewFinder cloud browser product.
- ViewFinder - Remote isolated browser API for security, automation visibility and interactivity.
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Show HN: Web proxy in iframe with Flash and incognito tabs
This work is based on this project on GitHub:
https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder
The version used in the above live demo has many advanced features (as you can see in the comparison[0]), including, Flash now as well. Thanks to the wonderful Ruffle Flash emulator project, written in Rust[1]
[0]: https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder/blob/boss/README.md#vf-pr...
[1]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
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Show HN: A WIP <BrowserView> web component with Flash, tabs and more
This includes a live demo on the same page. Just it "Try it now", and it will boot up a component for you to play with. I've made the Home page a list of class Adobe Flash games, that the Flash emulator project Ruffle uses for tests.
I use Ruffle to provide the flash content. It's pretty cool.
Everything should work, but you may have some issues on older browsers. It will not work without JavaScript enabled.
The browser component is based on this project:
https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder
but contains a bunch of enhancements, such as better streaming (using WebRTC and various tricks), Flash, and many other improvements.
If you see an issue feel free to report it to the above repo, preferably as a discussion, which just seems cooler and more lightweight.
This was all originally created as a delivery layer for a web-scraping app that was supposed to work on mobile, but became a break-out product in its own right...Break-out as in factored-out :). You can build lots of different stuff with it.[0]
The Ruffle integration functions essentially the same way as the Ruffle browser extension, so it's basically incorporating an "extension" even tho it's running Chrome headless. There's also paid options if you need that.
[0]: https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder#applications
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A browser you embed in a webpage.
Congratulations on your fantastic ViewFinder! I am using it on my old iPhone to access some modern webpages, see it in action. If only Whatsapp Web worked!
- Show HN: Browser in JavaScript
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Show HN: Free remote browsers for individual use
Ask me whatever you want. We can chat here, or go there:
https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder/discussions
or you can mail me: [email protected] ! :)
- ViewFinder - a virtualized browser running in your web browser (a.k.a. remote browser isolation)
- Remote isolated browsers for personal use
- Source-available isolated browsing - ViewFinder
chromium
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Demystifying the Shadow DOM
One of the unexpected use of shadow DOMs for me was a document generated for image resource URLs [1], because the HTML standard apparently specifies the exact DOM structure of the generated document except for the `` element [2].
[1] https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/f02ca73/third_part...
[2] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/document-lifecycle.ht...
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Detect when your installed Chrome extensions have changed owners
Recently my favorite open source mouse gestures extension SmartUp Gestures was taken over by some shady entity (with github no longer being updated of course).
I opened Chrome ticket that they should ask to re-enable extension when ownership changes. They just closed the ticket replying with this link:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/extens...
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Supermium β Chromium fork for Win 2003 and newer
Hmm. It looks like files with the .lnk or .pif file extension can only be downloaded on a user gesture: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/39841e54180...
So it can't be done silently. Although, I do wish the type was marked "DANGEROUS" a la dll files.
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New Linux glibc flaw lets attackers get root on major distros
On Linux, Chromium uses setuid or user namespaces to restrict the access of sandboxed components and seccomp-bpf to reduce the kernel attack surface.
Check out the Chromium docs on this topic: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/l...
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Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission
You can also disable JIT in Firefox by setting javascript.options.baselinejit to false in about:config, although you won't get CET.
[1] https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/12c232c43ce7324d30...
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Apple Announces Changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
Chromium targets iOS already: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/i...
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Google Is Tracking You Even in Incognito Mode, New Disclaimer Is Up
For the sake of completeness, I've traced the evolution of the notice over time:
From 2008-07-26: "Going incognito doesn't affect the behavior of other people, servers, or software. Be wary of: / β’ Websites that collect or share information about you / β’ Internet service providers or employers that track the pages you visit / β’ Malicious software that tracks your keystrokes in exchange for free smileys / β’ Surveillance by secret agents / β’ People standing behind you" (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/09911bf300f...)
From 2013-12-07: "Going incognito doesn't affect the behavior of other people, servers, software, or people standing behind you." (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/c5e36c57178...)
From 2013-12-13: "However, you aren't invisible. Going incognito doesn't hide your browsing from your employer, your internet service provider, or the websites you visit." (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/70821506825...)
From 2014-02-27: "However, you aren't invisible. Going incognito doesn't hide your browsing from your employer, your internet service provider, governments and other sophisticated attackers, or the websites you visit." (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/ab54bd65701...)
From 2014-04-29: "Going incognito doesn't hide your browsing from your employer, your internet service provider, or the websites you visit." (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/eb09a62ef40...)
From 2016-01-15: "However, you aren't invisible. Going incognito doesnβt hide your browsing from your employer, your internet service provider, or the websites you visit." (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/b7dac1a6a79...)
From 2017-02-27: "Your activity might still be visible to: / β’ Websites you visit / β’ Your employer / β’ Your internet service provider" (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/cfe102adddc...)
From 2017-03-29: "Your activity might still be visible to: / β’ Websites you visit / β’ Your employer or school / β’ Your internet service provider" (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/7ca3ccf74e8...)
(Note that some of these were behind a feature flag for a few months.) Also, it looks like they've been intending to modify the new-tab page text for Incognito windows for some time, as part of the "Revamped Incognito NTP" project. You can view the modified text with 'chromium --enable-features=IncognitoNtpRevamp':
From 2021-08-13: "What Incognito doesn't do / Incognito does not make you invisible online: / β’ Sites know when you visit them / β’ Employers or schools can track browsing activity / β’ Internet service providers may monitor web traffic" (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/e6ae57ba385...)
From 2022-01-25: "What Incognito doesn't do / Incognito does not make you invisible online: / β’ Sites and the services they use can see visits / β’ Employers or schools can track browsing activity / β’ Internet service providers can monitor web traffic" (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/8b349f6c984...)
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What Progressive Web App (PWA) Can Do Today
Blink can now be compiled for iOS, but without JIT or WASM:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/i...
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=141170...
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People like me are why you shouldn't run a hosting company
I think its weird that Vercel has this limit. There is no practical reason I can think of for having such a limit on URL characters that is so small. Chrome suggests a 2MB limit[0] for example. The platform itself doesn't have one, and Firefox I believe if memory serves (I can't find the source for this claim atm) is 1 MB effectively, and I don't think Safari is any lower than that either (and may well be more inline with Chrome on this, at 2 MB)
[0]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...
What are some alternatives?
BrowserBox - π Browse the web from a browser you run on a server, rather than on your local device. Lightweight virtual browser. For security, privacy and more! By https://github.com/dosyago
ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
BrowserBox - π· BrowserBoxPro - The internet. But unrestricted. And secure. Remote browser isolation product, available here and in Pro for purchase on our website. [Moved to: https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserBoxPro]
WebKit - Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.
ViewFinderJS - :camera: ViewFinder - Remote isolated browser API for security, automation visibility and interactivity. RBI. CBII. Remote browser isolation, embeddable BrowserView, secure chrome-as-a-service. Managed, variable bandwidth and co-browsing options available in Pro versions. Like S2, WebGap, Bromium, Authentic8, Menlo Security and Broadcom, but free and open-source. Integrated secure document viewing with CDR from https://github.com/dosyago/p2%2e [Moved to: https://github.com/i5ik/ViewFinder]
termux-packages - A package build system for Termux.
ViewFinder - :camera: ViewFinder - NodeJS product to make the browser into a web app. WTF RBI. CBII. Remote browser isolation, embeddable browserview, secure chrome saas. Licenses, managed, self-hosted. Like S2, WebGap, Bromium, Authentic8, Menlo Security and Broadcom, but open source with free live demos available now! Also, integrated RBI/CDR with CDR from https://github.com/dosyago/p2%2e [Moved to: https://github.com/i5ik/ViewFinderJS]
bromite - Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!
StegCloak - Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely using passwords π§π»ββοΈβ
brave-browser - Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.
coreruleset - OWASP CRS (Official Repository)
gecko-dev - Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org. How to contribute: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html