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 == Chrome Content ==
-Much of the DevTools front-end / UI is currently loaded using <tt>chrome://</tt> (meaning "browser chrome" as in the UI, no relation to the Chrome browser) URLs which allow those files to have privileged access to platform internals.  (We'd like to move away from this on the DevTools and be more like regular web sites, but most tools are using <tt>chrome://</tt> URLs for now.)
+Much of the DevTools front-end / UI is currently loaded using <tt>chrome://</tt> URLs which allow those files to have privileged access to platform internals.
+"Chrome" here means "browser chrome", as in the UI, and bears no relation to "Chrome" as in the browser. We'd like to move away from this on DevTools and be more like regular web sites, but most tools are using <tt>chrome://</tt> URLs for now.
 Chrome content is typically used to load XUL, HTML, and JS files in the UI.