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Re:Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visit... by esperent on Monday July 06, 2020 @09:59AM (#23747904)
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...

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Re:Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visit... by kristianc on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:24AM (#23748203)
And doesn’t actually make much sense, as Chrome when it was released made a point of having vastly less ‘chrome’ than the incumbent IE.
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Re:Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visit... by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:39AM (#23748371)
But it was a thin "chrome" over webkit (well, at the time...)
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Re:Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visit... by cpeterso on Monday July 06, 2020 @01:35PM (#23750369)
Long 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.
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