the.com/chrome
The shine that promised the future and delivered hubcaps and browser tabs eating your RAM.
means A bright, hard, corrosion-resistant metallic finish (or the metal chromium itself), and by extension any glossy decorative surface — now also the visual styling around a software interface.
from From Greek 'chroma,' meaning color, by way of the metal chromium, which French chemists named in the early 1800s for the brilliantly colored compounds it forms. So the word that now evokes mirror-bright steel began life pointing not at shine but at hue. The 'browser chrome' and 'interface chrome' senses are a later metaphorical leap, borrowing the idea of decorative trim wrapped around the working content.
- element
- Chromium gives rubies and emeralds their colors
- browser dominance
- Powers over 60 percent of global web traffic
- hard metal
- Chrome plating resists scratches and corrosion fiercely
- name origin
- Greek 'chroma' means color, from vivid compounds
- memory hog
- Each tab runs its own hungry process
google chrome — web browser launched by google in 2008, now used by ~65% of internet users
chromium — open-source project that forms the base of google chrome and brave browser
microsoft edge — browser rebuilt on chromium engine in 2020, replacing edgehtml