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Apparently the main reason Chrome has the name is that the dev team leads like fast cars and that was the initial project code name. The reference to "UI Chrome
by esperent 6y ago
Apparently the main reason Chrome has the name is that the dev team leads like fast cars and that was the initial project code name. The reference to "UI Chrome" was largely an accident.
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/google-chrome-reason-revealed/ https://www.thewindowsclub.com/google-chrome-reason-revealed...
- kristianc 6y agoAnd doesn’t actually make much sense, as Chrome when it was released made a point of having vastly less ‘chrome’ than the incumbent IE.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoBut it was a thin "chrome" over webkit (well, at the time...)
- cpeterso 6y agoLong before Google Chrome development began (and to this day), Firefox code has used the term “chrome” internally to distinguish between privileged JavaScript code used in the Firefox UI and regular JavaScript from web content.