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		bobajeff on Jan 30, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Project Silk Actually, Chrome is named for the interface. It's meant to be ironic because the point of Chrome is reducing the browsers chrome making more room for the Web page. The name Chromium was playing on the fact that it's the metal used in chrome plating. (Just as the Chromium Project is used in making the browser Chrome.)

wodenokoto on Feb 8, 2015 | [–]

I always saw the name as "now google is also making the chrome, and not just the content of your browser"

woodman on Jan 30, 2015 | [–]

In that case it is even worse, reusing words from the same domain... Everybody check out my new linux distro, Microkernel, it is the ironic OS!

Google needs to start running this stuff by me.

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