1. High Performance Browser Networking: What every web developer should know about networking and web performance

   Ilya Grigorik

   Don't have a chance to finish reading yet. Still working on it.

2. How Browsers Work

   Ehsan Akhgari

   A very concise pack of slides introducing the fundamentals of browsers.

3. How browsers work

   Tali Garsiel

   This page provides very comprehensive and detailed gentle introduction to the architecture of browsers.

4. The Security Architecture of the Chromium Browser

   Adam Barth, Collin Jackson, Charles Reis, Google Chrome Team

   This paper presents the very primitive motivation for the architecture of Chromium broswer with security bearing in mind.

5. Mozilla Rust And Servo

   Robert O'Callahan

   The author asks many big-picture-like questions, which are worth thinking for almost all the web application developers.

6. Establishing Browser Security Guarantees through Formal Shim Verification

   Dongseok Jang, Zachary Tatlock, Sorin Lerner

   A very interesting project. They built a browser kernel inside the theorem prover and actually proved the correctness of the kernel using Coq. This broadens the range of how we think of software engineering and sheds light on building highly reliable software systems.

7. A browser for the HTML5 era

   This is another very interesting and experimental project, which is written entirely in Javascript, taking advantages provided by Chromium, Node.js, and HTML/JS/CSS.

8. Process Models

   Everyone dealing with memory management of Chromium project should take a close look at this.

9. The Web Animations You've Always Wanted

Alex J. Ray