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Source-code-derived API reference for the Chromium Embedded Framework — pinned to CEF 151.3.24 (Chromium 151.0.7922.174). Every signature, parameter and threading constraint comes verbatim from the include/*.h headers.

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Core APIs

Process bootstrap, browser lifecycle, frames, DOM, requests and data objects — the foundation every CEF app builds on.

Browser Handlers

The user-implemented interfaces returned from CefClient — display, dialogs, downloads, context menus, audio and more.

Views Framework

The browser-process UI toolkit — windows, panels, layouts, buttons and textfields with their delegate interfaces.

V8 & Process Messaging

The JavaScript bridge — the CefV8 value tree, inter-process messages and shared memory regions.

System Utilities

Tasks and threads, parsers, streams, cookies, URL requests, scheme registration and constant tables.

PDF Manual

Prefer reading offline? Grab the full API specification as a soft copy from MediaFire and read it anywhere.

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Head straight to the CEF v151 reference — Start here — the complete, version-pinned API surface of CEF 151.3.24. If you would rather read a soft copy, the same content is available as a PDF manual.

About this site ​

This documentation is generated strictly from the CEF C++ header files. Every interface, method signature, parameter description and threading constraint on this site comes verbatim from the corresponding include/*.h file. Where the header is silent on a detail (e.g. threading), the page says so explicitly rather than guessing — these docs never extrapolate or paraphrase the source.

Editorial policy

Where the source header is silent on a detail (e.g. threading constraints or return-value semantics), this site explicitly writes "Threading constraint not specified in source." The header comment is the final word.

Available versions ​

VersionCEF BuildChromiumStatus
v151151.3.24+g2384915151.0.7922.174Current — start here
v152——Placeholder (not yet generated)

Acknowledgements ​

This project only exists because of the work of the upstream community, and we are grateful for it. It is curated, generated and hosted by Ernest Tech House (owned by Pease Ernest), which is a completely separate and independent organization from the official CEF ownership and maintainers.

  • Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) — Copyright (c) Marshall A. Greenblatt, Google Inc. and contributors, distributed under a BSD-style license. The API signatures published here are derived from the public include/*.h headers and all upstream ownership is respected.
  • The Chromium project — the engine that CEF embeds; the backbone of every API documented on this site.
  • Ernest Tech House — curation, generation, and hosting on Cloudflare Pages, plus the continuing documentation contract that keeps these pages verbatim to source.

Project status

This is not yet the official documentation for the CEF project. It is a community-driven, source-derived remade documentation website. Ernest Tech House is actively striving and contributing to make this the official documentation in the future.

License & attribution ​

The Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) is Copyright (c) Marshall A. Greenblatt, Google Inc. and contributors. The original CEF source code is distributed under a BSD-style license; see the upstream repository for the full text. This documentation project — the markdown, VitePress configuration, generator scripts and overall architecture — is curated and maintained by Ernest Tech House.

Derived from the CEF C++ headers — © Marshall A. Greenblatt, Google Inc. & contributors (BSD-style license). Not an official CEF project.

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