Global Privacy Control aims to be a replacement for Do Not Track. DNT
ended up not being a great solution, as it wasn't enforced by law. This
actually resulted in the DNT header serving as an extra fingerprinting
data point.
GPC is becoming enforced by law in USA states such as California and
Colorado. CA is further working on a bill which requires that browsers
implement such an opt-out preference signal (OOPS):
https://cppa.ca.gov/announcements/2025/20250911.html
This patch replaces DNT with GPC and hooks up the associated settings.
By migrating the debug menu to LibWebView, the AppKit and Qt UIs are now
in sync - the AppKit UI was previously missing some actions.
Further, this inadvertently fixes bugs around applying debug settings to
new web views, especially across site-isolated processes. We were
previously not applying settings appropriately; this now "just works" in
the LibWebView infra.
This migrates all duplicated context menus from the UIs to LibWebView.
The context menu actions are now largely handled directly in LibWebView,
with some UI-specific callbacks added to display e.g. confirmation
dialogs.
Actions that only ever apply to a specific web view are stored on the
ViewImplementation itself. Actions that need to be dynamically applied
to the active web view are stored on the Application.
We currently duplicate a lot of code to handle application/context menus
and actions. The goal here is to hold the data for the menus and actions
in LibWebView. Each UI will then be able to generate menus from the data
on-the-fly.
The structures added here are meant to support generic and checkable
actions, action groups, submenus, etc.
The result is currently only used as a StringView, but a future commit
will place the result in Web::Clipboard::SystemClipboardRepresentation,
which requires a ByteString (there's no UTF-8 clipboard requirement).
The HTTP cache is now stable enough that we can ask more people to help
us testing it. So let's turn it on by default! It can be turned off with
--disable-http-cache if needed.
This first pass only applies to the following two cases:
- Public functions returning a view type into an object they own
- Public ctors storing a view type
This catches a grand total of one (1) issue, which is fixed in
the previous commit.
WPT reference tests can add metadata to tests to instruct the test
runner how to interpret the results. Because of this, it is not enough
to have an action that starts loading the (mis)match reference: we need
the test runner to receive the metadata so it can act accordingly.
This sets our test runner up for potentially supporting multiple
(mis)match references, and fuzzy rendering matches - the latter will be
implemented in the following commit.
(...) fallbacks"
This reverts commit 9e7b40747f. This
caused most bold headings to display as regular headings, since Arial
Unicode MS does not support other styles (as opposed to Arial).
We need a better font selection algorithm to properly support selecting
fonts for specific glyphs. Issue #2332 exists to keep track of
supporting less frequently used glyphs.
This replaces the --devtools-port flag with a --devtools flag, which
optionally accepts a port. If the --devtools flag is set, we will now
automatically launch the DevTools server.
It is confusing to have both URL::Host::public_suffix and
URL:get_public_suffix, both with slightly different semantics.
Instead, use PublicSuffixData for cases that just want a direct
match against the list, and URL::Host::public_suffix in LibWeb
land as the URL spec defined AO.
This change follows the pattern of our cookies persistence
implementation: the "browser" process is responsible for interacting
with the sqlite database, and WebContent communicates all storage
operations via IPC.
The new database table uses (storage_endpoint, storage_key, bottle_key)
as the primary key. This design follows concepts from the
https://storage.spec.whatwg.org/ and is intended to support reuse of the
persistence layer for other APIs (e.g., CacheStorage, IndexedDB). For
now, `storage_endpoint` is always "localStorage", `storage_key` is the
website's origin, and `bottle_key` is the name of the localStorage key.
In particular, we need to defer creating the process manager until after
we have decided whether or not to create a UI-specific event loop. If we
create the process manager sooner, its event loop signal registration
does not work, and we don't handle child processes exiting.
You would have to just know that you need to define the constructor with
this declaration. Let's allow subclasses to define constructors as they
see fit.
This is causing errors on the WPT runner, which does not have a display
output. To do this requires shuffling around the Main::Arguments struct,
as we now need access to it from overridden WebView::Application methods
after construction.
Now that headless mode is built into the main Ladybird executable, the
headless-browser's only purpose is to run tests. So let's move it to the
testing directory and rename it to test-web (a la test-js / test-wasm).
We currently create a separate headless-browser application to serve two
purposes:
1. Allow headless browsing to take a screenshot of a page or print its
layout tree / internal text.
2. Run the LibWeb test framework.
This patch migrates (1) to the main Ladybird executable. The --headless
flag enables this mode. This matches the behavior of other browsers, and
means we have one less executable to ship at distribution time.
We want to avoid creating too many AppKit / Qt facilities in headless
mode. So this involves some shuffling of application init to ensure we
don't create them until after we've parsed the command line arguments.
Namely, we avoid creating the NSApp in AppKit and QCoreApplication in
Qt. Doing so also requires that we don't create the application event
loop until we've parsed the command line as well, because the loop we
create depends on whether we're creating those UI facilities.
this commit also introduces GlobalFontConfig class that is now
responsible for fontconfig initialization. it seems sane, even thought
FcInit's docs state that if the default configuration has already been
loaded, this routine does nothing.
