On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 08:53:44 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Ken Blake wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

Like Firefox 57+ (Quantum), Chrome doesn't let extensions mess with the
chrome of the web browser, and the chrome includes the tabs.

You say "the chrome." Can you be more specific, please. What does "the
chrome" mean in this sense.

Chromium is an open-sourced project for a web browser. Google added
some proprietary components, so they called it Chrome. Before Chromium
or Chrome, the "chrome" of a web browser was its frame, toolbars, menus,
status bar, and other elements of its GUI distinct from its document
window (where the web page gets rendered).


Thanks very much.


Chrome was used by
programmers to describe those components of a web browser long before
Google decided to adopt the terminology for their product name.

Newbies (Gen Z) not familiar with web browsers before Chrome showed up
(2008) only know chrome (small "c") as [Google] Chrome (big "C"). Old
farts, like me, know what was meant by the chrome for a web browser
before Google even existed.



I'm probably an older fart than you; I'm 80. And although I've been
working with computers (including programming them) since 1962, I
wasn't familiar with the term. I only programmed mainframes and
minicomputers