"Theo"  wrote in message
news:dsj*Obanx@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk...
> Dave Underwood  wrote:
>> In this context, "chrome" refers to graphical interface elements, as
>> described here:
>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface#User_interface_and_inter
action_design.
>>
>> What's commonly called "Chrome" is, strictly speaking, "Google Chrome".
>
> More generally, Google's 'Chrome' line (browser, Chromebooks, etc) speaks
> to
> the worldview that everything is on the web, and hence a web
> browser/laptop/etc is the minimal amount of adornment that allows you to
> access all of these things.  Hence the browser is called 'Chrome' because
> it's essentially the minimalist window frame through which you view the
> web.
> In its origins in UI, 'chrome' originates from extra little trimmings like
> bumpers around the main product (the car).


Sounds as if "Chrome" was already used as a generic term for GUI
"ornamentation" (which is the context in which Firefox's "userChrome.css"
uses it), before Google came along and used the word as the name of their
browser - and inevitably "Google Chrome" becomes shortened to "Chrome" in
everyday parlance. I'd only ever heard of "Chrome" in the context of the
Google Chrome browser and a Chromebook which I took to be a low-powered
laptop which used the Chrome browser for accessing online versions of apps
which are normally installed on a more high-powered laptop; I wasn't aware
of it being used as a synonym for GUI.


It's the same as "Outlook" which Microsoft originally used as a name to
describe their Office (as opposed to domestic) email client.

Then suddenly they started using "Outlook" as their email domain name, as in
email addresses "x@outlook.com" and hence causing great confusion for those
who knew Outlook as the email client.



Incidentally, to get back to my earlier posting, I tried my userChrome.css
file (from my Windows PC) in ~/.mozilla/firefox//chrome on FF 66 on
Ubuntu, and it worked perfectly, giving the placement of the tab bars below
the nav/bookmark bars. I imagine it will also work fine on FF 66 on Ras Pi -
once that version of FF is ported to
Ras Pi ;-)



By the way, has anyone else found that FF 52 ESR uses a *lot* of CPU power
on the Ras Pi? My CPU usage (as shown by the widget in the taskbar) is
normally about 5-10%, even when TVHeadend is recording an HD channel and an
SD channel (from two separate DVB-USB decoders).

However the usage shoots up to about 50% as soon as Firefox is started and
whenever I load a new page, only going back down to 5% about 30 seconds
after a page has been loaded - until I load a different page or even scroll
down on an already-loaded page, when it shoots up again.

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