title: [TLD]/firefox/chrome link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/tldfirefoxchrome/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 458 created: 2008/09/02 13:36:49 created_gmt: 2008/09/02 13:36:49 comment_status: open post_name: tldfirefoxchrome status: publish post_type: post

[TLD]/firefox/chrome

Is it just me, or doesn’t Google’s name for its new web browser remind you of something you may have seen in, say, the directory path for the current highly popular browser from Mozilla Corp?

Chrome.

I mean, there it is for anyone who has ever installed Firefox from archive to see. It’s right in the root directory of the package, for heaven’s sake!

[your top level directory here]/firefox/chrome.

In case you haven’t ever looked in there, its the one with all the .jar files, and icons, that Firefox uses in rendering its “look and feel”. In fact, chrome isn’t just a directory, it’s what developers call the browser’s UI window. There’s even a bunch of articles detailing chrome URLs and what you can do with them.

Funny how none of the tech-clueless non tech press has mentioned this.

Or, for that matter, the supposedly tech-saavy (but in actuality similarly tech-clueless) tech press.

So you read it here first.

Too bad I don’t get paid to sit around all day and think about this kind of stuff.

Back to the salt mines.

P.S. Oh yeah. As far as I’m concerned its about time we had a new combatant in the browser war. If poor (OK, system debilitating) performance and crashing windows actually improved with each new version from the other two I might feel differently — but the pain I experienced in the last transition from Firefox 2 to 3 was no illusion, and neither is the churn to a standstill behavior of IE 7. I’m ready to try something different. Real ready. Of course someone needs to go tell the guy who develops the Flash plugin for Linux that he now has more to worry about than porting to 64-bit Firefox…

P.P.S. Google’s comic-book style explanation of its new browser technology is something you’ll want to take the time to read through. Here is a direct link.

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