apparently google has been putting their software in everything including the kitchen sink since 1798??
read for yourself if you don’t believe me - source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stainless_steel
the source is a little known but nifty website that desperately needs funding so if you go there you should give them like a dollar or whatever your local equivalent is, like one peso or a bitcoin or what have you
apologies for the english I am an american
In UI jargon, “chrome” means the non-content UI that frames what you actually care about, by analogy to the decorative chrome trim on old cars: shiny, attention-grabbing “window dressing” around the “real” thing. Mozilla documentation from 1999 talks about “window chrome” as the browser’s UI framing.
Google named their browser “Chrome” as an ironic nod to minimizing UI chrome. So the name literally comes from the use of the metal chromium on cars.