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Why does Firefox name its UI interface configuration file : userChrome.css ? why not userFirefox.css ?

brandizzi
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The word "chrome" refers to the "skin" or basically what the UI looks like. The Google browser called Chrome came along later.

Graeme Perrow
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User interface features are sometimes referred to as "chrome". Google Chrome was called Chrome because it's a nicer skin with webkit rendering. Hope that helps :)

Tak
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