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Re:Show HN: How software projects and companies got their name by spatulon on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @01:33PM (#16422646)
In browser circles, 'chrome' refers to the bits of the browser UI that aren't the renderer.

It's hard for me to believe that Chrome's name didn't just originate from Google talking about taking WebKit and building their own chrome around it.

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Re:Show HN: How software projects and companies got their name by richev on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:21AM (#16436591)
The use of "chrome" in this context isn't limited only to browsers[0].

My recollection is that Google Chrome was so-named because one of their design goals was to _minimize_ the amount of GUI chrome, so that the maximum amount of screen space was available for displaying web page content.

[0] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/browser-and-gui-chrome/

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