Replacing My Window Manager with Google Chrome

When I was younger I thought of replacing most of the OS with a browser since that is how I used it. but this is weird and not in a good way. Maybe using Firefox would feel better.

Re: Replacing My Window Manager with Google Chrome

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Post by GaryBluto » Mon, Dec 01, 2025, 5:28 AM UTC

I believe the earlier versions of Chrome/Chromium OS took this to the logical extreme.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2009/11/19/208062/google-gi...

Re: Replacing My Window Manager with Google Chrome

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Post by ComputerGuru » Mon, Dec 01, 2025, 5:46 AM UTC

jauntywundrkind wrote: post #5

Pyro Desktop! But with Chrome instead of Firefox. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2007/07/exper... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39541

Sounds like a more performant and cleaner solution than TFA.

Re: Replacing My Window Manager with Google Chrome

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Post by raphinou » Mon, Dec 01, 2025, 6:38 AM UTC

This is based on the Chromium Embedded Framework. I've always been surprised this kind of framework was not encouraged for Firefox by Mozilla (I've read they were even against it).

Re: Replacing My Window Manager with Google Chrome

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Post by yokljo » Mon, Dec 01, 2025, 7:20 AM UTC

This is a pretty neat idea, and shows that maybe a desktop environment could be a lot more flexible than we're used to if it was based on something flexible. Not exactly counter intuitive.

I'd like to see how complex a CEF-based Wayland compositor would be in comparison.

How about using Godot instead of CEF? It has a pretty full-featured UI system.

So many possibilities.