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Originally Posted by RuggedPineapple
Not weird at all. Chrome in terms of web browsers in a term that dates back to the 90s and was around long before Google was, even pre-firefox Mozilla had options that began with chrome.(whatever) for visual tweaks. The Chrome browser was named after the phrase, not the other way around. Chrome is what browser developers call the UI of the browser thats not the actual web page being displayed but the core app. All the bars at top and bottom, buttons, toolbars added it... When Chrome launched it was not uncommon to see a third of the screen taken up with browser chrome. The browser name is because its first big innovation, before even javascript compilation, was its stripped down, minimalist UI that left so much more space for the content.
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Thanks for this!
I guess you learn something new every day!