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The Google Chrome comic book

Posted Sep 2, 2008 21:23 UTC (Tue) by tjc (guest, #137)
Parent article: The Google Chrome comic book

Google says:

> We've used components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox, among others [snip]

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/why.html?hl=en

Webkit's contribution is obvious, but I wonder what they took from Firefox?

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From Mozilla: Chrome

Posted Sep 3, 2008 1:39 UTC (Wed) by midg3t (guest, #30998) [Link]

The word "Chrome" for a start.

From Mozilla: Chrome

Posted Sep 3, 2008 1:52 UTC (Wed) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

I thought the name sounded familiar. I even bought the book (Rapid Application Development with Mozilla). It (Mozilla Chrome) was really unstable a few years ago, so I gave up on it.

What Chrome took from Firefox

Posted Sep 3, 2008 8:29 UTC (Wed) by darwish07 (subscriber, #49520) [Link]

Maybe the experience of developing a widely used web browser, building above what's done good and improving what's done bad?