Google Chrome Frame

A plugin for Internet Explorer that add to the Microsoft browser, the JavaScript compiler of Chrome and the HTML 5 support!

This plugin will work on Internet Explorer 6, 7 and further versions. Google wants to break a barrier that prevents the Web to evolve: the most common browser and its lack of compatibility with the new standards.

When it is recognized, Internet Explorer will run under WebKit, the rendering engine of Chrome and Safari, and the it will use the ultra-fast JavaScript compiler in replacement if the IE interpreter.

The advantage of this plugin is great for the compatibility of web applications and will become even more useful with WebGL integrated in Webkit, which let us have applications in 3D on the browser: a very different Web! WebGL will also work in Firefox 3.7.

Features of Frame

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How use Google Chrome Frame

A tag in the code of a Web page will display a message prompting the user to download the plugin. Once it is installed, IE run as Chrome and will support HTML 5.

Reaction from Microsoft

We were expecting that Microsoft does not appreciate really this initiative that promotes HTML 5 to the detriment of their own solution, Silverlight. The firm highlights a security problem:

Given the security issues with plug-ins in general and Google Chrome in particular, Google Chrome Frame running as a plug-in has doubled the attack area for malware and malicious scripts.

Source ZDNet.

The issue is reviewed by Ars Technica.

The most amusing is that a vulnerability has been discovered in a plugin installed silently by Microsoft into Firefox, the Windows Presentation Foundation plugin, against which Microsoft itself warns you! See extra info on the attack... Microsoft explains how to disable the plugin! They are well placed to know security problems in plugins.

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