Native Client

Native Client is an open-source research technology for running x86 native code in web applications, with the goal of maintaining the browser neutrality, OS portability, and safety that people expect from web apps. We've released this project at an early, research stage to get feedback from the security and broader open-source communities. We believe that Native Client technology will someday help web developers to create richer and more dynamic browser-based applications.

How to get involved

You can help make Native Client as secure and useful as possible. Here's how:

1. Download the Native Client distribution for your development platform (Linux, Mac, or Windows)
2. Install the distribution and run demos, following the instructions in the Getting Started guide
3. Help us test Native Client, starting with these suggestions.
4. Subscribe to our announcements
5. Give us feedback:
• Participate in the discussion group
• File issues about bugs and other problems you find

If you are not using our experimental plug-in we recommend you uninstall it.

More information

See the Google Code blog post announcing Native Client. It gives an introduction to Native Client and information about this release. Then take a look at the Native Client documentation and wiki. You can also read our research paper (PDF).

New! Don't miss our Google I/O video (with PDF slides), which features the latest Native Client demos.

Quake and XaoS in the browser. For more information, see Examples and Tests.