Browser Engine Research

This page lists technical papers and other documents that relate to past and current research on browser engines.

Index

• Concurrent/Parallel Browser Implementations
• Parallelizing Browser Tasks
• Analyzing and Modeling Browser Tasks
• Improving Browser Performance
• Other Documents

Concurrent/Parallel Browser Implementations

• Engineering the Servo Web Browser Engine using Rust

  • Mozilla Research
  • ICSE 2016

• Experience Report: Developing the Servo Web Browser Engine using Rust

  • Mozilla Research
  • 2015

• ZOOMM: A Parallel Web Browser Engine for Multicore Mobile Devices

  • Qualcomm Research
  • ACM SIGPLAN Notices 2013

• A Case for Parallelizing Web Pages

  • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign + Valkyrie Computer Systems + Qualcomm Research
  • HotPar 2012

• The Multi-Principal OS Construction of the Gazelle Web Browser

  • Microsoft Research
  • USENIX Security Symposium 2009

Parallelizing Browser Tasks

• Parallel JavaScript Execution in Web Navigation Sequences

  • University of A Coruna
  • International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology 2015

• HPar: A practical parallel parser for HTML--taming HTML complexities for parallel parsing

  • Mozilla + College of William and Mary
  • ACM TACO 2013

• Fast and Parallel Webpage Layout

  • University of California, Berkeley
  • WWW 2010

• Towards Parallelizing the Layout Engine of Firefox

  • Intel + University of California, Irvine
  • HotPar 2010

Analyzing and Modeling Browser Tasks

• An In-depth Study of Mobile Browser Performance

  • Stony Brook University
  • WWW 2016

• Energy consumption and privacy in mobile Web browsing: Individual issues and connected solutions

  • University of Salerno, Italy
  • Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems 2016 (Journal)

• Concurrency in Mobile Browser Engines

  • Qualcomm Research
  • IEEE Pervasive Computing 2015 (Journal)

• Exploiting Webpage Characteristics for Energy-Efficient Mobile Web Browsing

  • University of Texas, Austin
  • IEEE Computer Architecture Letters 2014

• WebCore: Architectural Support for Mobile Web Browsing

  • University of Texas, Austin
  • ISCA 2014

• Demystifying Page Load Performance with WProf

  • University of Washington
  • NSDI 2013

• High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Mobile Web Browsing on Big/Little Systems

  • University of Texas, Austin
  • HPCA 2013

• A study of performance variations in the Mozilla Firefox web browser

  • Victoria University of Wellington
  • ACSC 2013

• Who killed my battery?: Analyzing Mobile Browser Energy Consumption

  • Stanford University
  • WWW 2012

• Why are Web Browers Slow on Smartphones?

  • Rice University + Texas Instruments
  • HotMobile 2011

• A Limit Study of JavaScript Parallelism

  • University of Washington
  • IISWC 2010

Improving Browser Performance

• Polaris: Faster Page Loads Using Fine-grained Dependency Tracking

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology + Harvard University
  • NSDI 2016

• Energy-Aware Web Browsing on Smartphones

  • IEEE members
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, March 2015

• Similarity-based web browser optimization

  • Peking University
  • WWW 2014

• Mobile Web Browser Optimizations in the Cloud Era: A Survey

  • Peking University
  • SOSE 2013

• GPU acceleration for the web browser based evolutionary computing system

  • AGH University of Science and Technology + Jagiellonian University
  • ICSTCC 2013

• Smart Caching for Web Browsers

  • University of Science and Technology Hefei, China + Microsoft Research Asia + Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • WWW 2010

Other Documents

• UC Browser

  • UCWeb

• Adrenaline Web Browser Demo

  • Presentation with audio
  • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne + Valkyrie Computer Systems + Qualcomm Research
  • USENIX workshop in HotPar'12

• Towards parallelizing the layout engine of firefox

  • University of California, Irvine + Intel
  • USENIX workshop in HotPar 2010

• Parallelizing the web browser

  • ParLab, University of California, Berkeley
  • HotPar 2009

• Rethinking Browser Performance

  • Leo Meyerovich, University of California, Berkeley
  • 2009

• Browsing web 3.0 in 3.0 watts

  • ParLab, University of California, Berkeley
  • A presentation on parallelizing lexing and parsing (slide 44 onward)
  • Document taken down

• Parallel Webpage Layout

  • ParLab, University of California, Berkeley
  • Presentation on parallelizing overall layout (styling + layout)

• Measuring Browser Performance

  • Microsoft's white paper on benchmarking a browser's performance.
  • Document taken down

• Chapter 2 of the ParLab-book

  • Ras Bodik (ParLab, University of California, Berkeley)
  • Document taken down

• Google's patent on MACHINE LEARNING METHOD TO IDENTIFY INDEPENDENT TASKS FOR PARALLEL LAYOUT IN WEB BROWSERS