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Chromium browserdevelopers.Not Chrome skinners.

Extensions and themes sit on top of a browser. We work underneath one — forking Chromium at the source and shipping it white-labeled, under your own name, not Google's. Kiosk, enterprise, and privacy clients have all come to us for exactly that, and we're one of fewer than 10 teams worldwide who can do it at production depth.

Vetted senior talent
Flexible engagement models
Founder-direct delivery
Why Entalogics

Why teams hire
Chromium browser developers from us.

Real Chromium work happens at the source level — forking the codebase, touching the IPC layer, shipping features no extension could ever reach. We've carried browsers through multiple upstream upgrades already, and that kind of track record is rare to find twice.

EXPERT BENCH01

Chromium browser developers, vetted for the framework itself.

Passing our screen means real C++ proficiency, fluency in Mojo IPC, comfort in the GN build system, and time already spent inside a 35-million-line codebase — production forks, not a tutorial finished last month.

FAST HIRING02

No six-week search for a browser roadmap.

We shortlist Chromium engineers who can start in days, and skip the interview marathon most agencies still run.

FLEXIBLE ENGAGEMENT03

Sized to the actual Chromium problem.

A multi-quarter fork needs a full-time engineer. A GN configuration fix or a patch conflict needs an hour, not a retainer. We size the engagement to which one you're actually facing.

Hiring model

Three ways
to staff your Chromium build.

One call gets you matched to a Chromium developer sized for your stack, your timeline, and how deep the fork actually needs to go.

M01160h / mo

Full-time hiring

One Chromium engineer, fully embedded, owning the fork inside your standups and process — no attention split with another client's browser. Built for teams maintaining a custom browser as an ongoing product.

M0280h / mo

Part-time hiring

Twenty hours a week covers what a live browser actually needs between releases — upstream rebasing, security patching, scheduled maintenance — without the cost of a full-time seat.

M0340h blocks

Hourly hiring

A fork audit, a GN build fix, a patch conflict, a CEF integration question — some Chromium problems are a few hours of the right expertise, not a project. Billed hourly, for exactly that.

Engagement models

Who runs
the project.

However your team already runs Chromium work, there's a model that slots into it — or tell us and we'll pick.

01

Entalogics managed team

The fork becomes our responsibility — patch management, upstream rebasing, GN configuration, signed builds — while your team stays focused on product direction, not merge conflicts.

  • PM + senior Chromium engineers on staff
  • We own the merge workflow
  • Milestone rebase reports weekly
02MOST COMMON

Client managed team

Already have a fork and in-house browser knowledge? This adds Chromium source-level depth without replacing what your team already knows how to run.

  • Developer embedded in your repo and CI
  • Reports into your browser engineering lead
  • Same hiring bar — you direct
03

Hybrid model

Product features and policy stay with your team. Source-level modifications, upstream rebasing, and build infrastructure move to our specialist.

  • Specialists from us, generalists from you
  • Shared standups + patch reviews
  • Clear ownership per component
Stack & tooling

The stack our Chromium
browser developers actually ship with.

Systems engineering, not web development, is the background this work requires. Here's what a real custom browser gets built on.

Chromium

The open-source engine itself, forked and shaped into a browser that's yours — not Google's, renamed.

CEF

Chromium Embedded Framework, for dropping real browser capability inside a desktop app instead of shipping a standalone browser.

CefSharp

.NET bindings that bring CEF into Windows applications cleanly.

WebView2

Microsoft's own Chromium-based control for embedding web content directly in Windows apps.

Electron (Chromium-based)

The lighter option: a cross-platform desktop shell on Chromium, right for SaaS and internal tools that don't need a full custom browser.

Related work

You might
also need.

Adjacent services we often ship together with Chromium work — same bench, same standard.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Straight answers.

Six questions we get on every first call about hiring Chromium browser developers. If yours isn't here, we'll cover it first.

Taking Google's open Chromium codebase and building your own browser on top of it at the source level — your branding, your features, your behavior. Not an extension. Not a theme. A real, separately-shipped browser.
Yes — AOL, SentryBay, AdsLogins, and Omni, spanning enterprise security, privacy and fingerprinting controls, and AI-powered browsing.
Whatever's current and stable, plus the harder part: carrying your custom patches forward across version upgrades, including the rejects and API breaks each one brings.
3 to 6 months for a browser with a clearly defined feature set. Longer once policy management, code signing, and a full distribution pipeline are part of the scope.
Yes, regularly. We start with a full patch audit to understand exactly what's been changed, then take over development and version maintenance from there.
Yes — code signing, installer packaging, and CI/CD pipelines built for all three platforms.
Founder-direct

Ready to build
something amazing?

Tell us what your custom browser needs to do, and we'll walk you through what it actually takes to ship it — production-ready, at a fair price.