Google Employee Creates Closure Lite

Some one-name google products: reader, chrome, notebook, docs, calendar, sites, voice, wave, transit, checkout, groups. Searching for those words alone usually brings up the google product as the first result. Looks like google wants to own a lot of common generic nouns.

I was reading some mozilla docs recently and every time I hit the word "chrome" meaning "browser chrome" and not "chrome the browser," I was met with a little cognitive pause and kept having to double check their meanings.

Just look at http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config_entries -- we have entries like "browser.chrome.[blah]." A few years ago it was blindingly obvious what they meant. Now, for a spit second, I see myself wondering "Why is FireFox using Chrome settings?" It's against good taste to call your products very generic but widely-used names.