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^ I think Mozilla called their thing Chrome for a long while.

I believe "chrome" has meant "the GUI of an application" for a very long time. I think it predates mozilla, but I could be mistaken.

You're not mistaken. We were calling it chrome since the Xerox 8010 Information System.

In case I wasn't clear, I meant that _Google's_ choice of browser name was confusing, given that it was an already-existing term.

I knew what you meant.