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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It took me the last five minutes to figure out that the chrome URI is probably not in reference to Google Chrome at all, but rather chrome as in the user interface skin.

[–] anguo@lemmy.ca 17 points 6 months ago

That's where Google Chrome got its name, AFAIK.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 30 points 6 months ago

Whaaaaaaaaa!!!??? That is so helpful. Why does no one ever talk about this when working on userChrome!!!

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 8 points 6 months ago

Now someone find a way to do on-demand PWA with this wonderful knowledge, please. Our current options are a CSS extension that requires different profiles, or PWA with Chrome and a Chrome2Firefox extension in Chrome for links.

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Super helpful!

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Thank you! That is fucking cool.