You can access Firefox’s configuration menus, opti***, and hidden features via “chrome://” URLs. If you’re the curious sort, you might be wondering why it’s not “firefox://” instead. Read on as we dig in.

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问题

超级用户读者ChocodeDeveloper真的很想知道Firefox和“chrome://”模式的交易是什么：

Why does Firefox use the “chrome://” protocol / schema in URLs?

When I want to configure an addon, for example Ghostery, the tab shows a URL like this one:

chrome://ghostery/content/opti***.html

What does it mean? Does it have something to do with the Chrome browser?

这是个很奇怪的称呼，不是吗？这几乎就像发现你的新福特卡车上的秘密配置菜单有密码“本田”。怎么回事？

答案

超级用户贡献者马克·亨德森立即清除了以下内容：

The phrase chrome has been used by Mozilla since long before Google Chrome came on the market. Typically the phrase “Chrome” referred to all the area around your viewport, but not the viewport itself. Sort of like the chrome plating some cars have around their windscreens or headlights.

See here for more details – but no; nothing to do with Google Chrome.

另一位撰稿人Konrad Rudolph对Chrome的命名提出了进一步的见解：

Actually a lot to do with Google Chrome: Google Chrome is explicitly named after the user interface chrome of a browser. In their very first marketing video (or was it the comic?) they explain something along the lines of focusing on reducing the chrome and focus on the content instead.

因此，Chrome既是浏览窗格周围装饰和GUI的术语，也是为了获得更干净的浏览体验而避开所有装饰和GUI的浏览器名称。

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