Fixing a Bug in Google Chrome as a First-Time Contributor
A rundown of my experience finding and fixing a bug in the Chromium/Google Chrome browser - specifically in the devtools. It includes details about the bug itself as well as notes about what it was like working on the Chromium project as a first-time contributor.
Hasnain says:
“Although it took a while and a good bit of effort, I'm very glad I spent time time to get this bug fixed. It was very unique compared to the kind of development I've done in the past, and it was cool to experience how software gets built at Chromium's scale.
One of the main things motivating me to do this was the knowledge that if I succeeded, code I wrote would be part of an application that eventually makes its way onto millions (billions?) of devices.
Even though the change itself is niche and concerns developer tooling rather than the main browser, that kind of impact is very alluring to me.
Now that I've gained this experience contributing to Chromium, I'll certainly be on the lookout for more bugs that I might be able to fix in the future. I don't think I'll go out of my way to seek them out, though, due to the huge amount of time it takes to tackle the Chromium codebase from scratch.”
Posted on 2024-08-27T07:12:23+0000