whitelist entry chrome:

[googlophobe]

I have been using noscript for a week or two and realized I might have permanently allowed sites by mistake. I looked at the documentation and went to whitelist tab in options and found I did indeed do some allows by mistake which I then deleted. But I noticed some items are permanently allowed and cannot be deleted there. One of them was "chrome:". I use firefox. I don't really understand "chrome:". Why is it there and what does it allow for a firefox user? Can it be deleted? What happens if I delete it? Thanks.

[googlophobe]

OK... I finally found it... It is a Mozilla thing not a Google thing... why the &^%&# did they pick "chrome:" which is so obviously googley? Are they trying to scare us poor pseudo-techs?

[barbaz]

@googlophobe Remember to log in before posting so you don't have to solve the CAPTCHA every time (especially given your username I've fixed it for you this time.)

Regarding "chrome", please see this before picking someone to yell at:

no, this has nothing to do with the Google Chrome web browser. Google did something annoying and lazy when they wrote their browser: they didn’t bother to name it. The word “chrome” is an old technical term for the parts of a web browser other than the web page it is showing. The idea is that you have the web content on screen and then the bits around it: the “chrome”. (I didn’t make up the stupid jargon) Google naming their browser Chrome (upper-case ‘C’) was roughly equivalent to as if Ford were to name their next vehicle the Ford Car. All of the usage of the word “chrome” and the “chrome://” protocol here predates Google Chrome and has nothing to do with it.

[Thrawn]

There actually would be logic in Google choosing the name - chrome is shiny and rust-resistant - except that it was rather rude of them to do that when the name was already a technical term.