I was wondering when browsers started calling the UI "chrome" (it's not a Google thing!)

Amazingly, the Firefox (then Mozilla) commit that introduced the "chrome" tree into the source code dates back to Sep 4, 1998... which is also the same day Google was founded!

github.com/mozilla-firefox/fir

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