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> If you think of the web app you're using as the primary application (Calendar, for example), instead of the browser, then the browser is just the chrome around it.

This goes even more if you considered how complex browser UIs were getting. Here's IE6:

http://static.myce.com/images_posts/2014/12/myce-internet-ex...

Oddly enough, Netscape 6 / Mozilla Browser seems to have been one of the first browsers to start paring down the UI - this looks a lot like Google Chrome today:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/Netscape_6.1....

Which makes sense as Netscape 4 was doing things like adding a 'Shop' button to the browser toolbar.




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