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20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web says, in the following passage, that Chrome has taken things from Firefox:

Open-source software plays a big role in many parts of the web, including today’s web browsers. The release of the open-source browser Mozilla Firefox paved the way for many exciting new browser innovations. Google Chrome was built with some components from Mozilla Firefox and with the open-source rendering engine WebKit, among others. In the same spirit, the code for Chrome was made open source so that the global web community could use Chrome’s innovations in their own products, or even improve on the original Chrome source code.

Does anyone know what those components are?

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Yes, you can look them (and other third-party software included in Chromium) up here: Terms and Conditions - Google Chrome

I'd hazard a guess that it's the three packages bearing the "MPL1.1" licence (it's a Mozilla specific license), all of which Firefox itself inherited from it's ascendant, Netscape Navigator. The last one, "nss", is only used in the Linux versions for password storage.

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