CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Chromium Embedded Framework Developer(s) Marshall Greenblatt Initial release June 1, 2009 ; 7 years ago ( 2009-06-01 ) Stable release 55.2883 and 54.2840 [1] / November 18, 2016 ; 32 days ago ( 2016-11-18 ) Development status Active Written in C++ Operating system Windows Linux Mac OS X Type Framework , Web browser License New BSD License (see BSD licenses ) Website bitbucket .org /chromiumembedded /cef Free software portal The Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) is an open source framework for embedding a web browser engine based on the Chromium core. It is a convenient way to add web browser control and implement an HTML5 -based layout GUI in a desktop application or to provide web browser capabilities to a software application or game , an...