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by egeozcan 433 days ago
I remember the good old times when Mozilla had a project named Chrome (yes) to (if my memory serves me correct) make building apps with gecko easier.

edit: Probably misremembering, now that I searched for it. Yes "chrome" was (and still is?) used to describe the non-webview parts of the FF but apparently I totally made up the project part.
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jraph 433 days ago
Are you thinking about XUL / XULRunner?
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eitland 433 days ago
Was it Prism?

That was a project to make it easy to make site specific browser IIRC.

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egeozcan 433 days ago
Yes, I think it was. I think some people used it to create custom "chromes" for Gecko, hence the confusion.

edit: Funny enough, the continuation project for Prism was named "Chromeless": https://github.com/mozilla/chromeless

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ksec 432 days ago
Because IIRC in old Mozilla Chrome was a project name that was the UI layer of Firefox. Chromeless basically just mean Firefox without UI for other applications to built on top.
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