Developer Spotlight | Mostafa Aboalkasim
Who are you? In 200 words or less tell us the most important things to know about you! I am Mostafa Aboalkasim, a Senior Computer Science student at Assiut University...
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Bug Bounty Wins: The Blurry Icon Bug Hiding in Your Linux Launcher
TL;DR Install a PWA on Linux with Chrome, and the generated .desktop file points at its icon with a relative path. On some desktop environments, that means a blurry, low-resolution...
Bug Bounty Wins: The Zoom Bug That Took a Village to Squash
TL;DR Chromium’s CSS zoom handling had a hidden gap: when a child explicitly inherited a normally non-inherited property from its parent, the value was not always adjusted for the child’s...
Bug Bounty Wins: The Sticky Header Bug That Wouldn’t Stay Put
TL;DR For years, Chrome had a quirk that made position: sticky headers go haywire when combined with display: inline (or display: inherit) and nested sticky elements. A new layout fix...
12 bugs squashed: $53K paid to developers
A big month for the Bug Bounty Program Chromium is enormous – hundreds of millions of lines of code, running on billions of devices, maintained by a global community moving...
Which Chromium bugs get fixed – and how we do it
The Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers initiative is keeping Chromium healthy by rewarding the engineers fixing the bugs. So how do we select the bugs? And what makes a project a...
Investing in stability: rewarding the engineers keeping Chromium healthy
Companies naturally focus on code that offers them a competitive edge, which often leads to the neglect of essential but less glamorous infrastructure work like bug triaging and code reviews....
Empowering the Fixers: Reinvesting $500,000 into the SOCBB Bug Bounty Program
Open-source software thrives on a simple truth: great code is built by communities, but monumental shifts often start with a single developer. When the Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers (SOCBB) initiative...
