Simon Willison's Weblog: chromeframe

Google Chrome Frame: Stable and Speedy

2010-09-23T01:34:00+00:00

Google Chrome Frame: Stable and Speedy

“Today, we’re very happy to take the Beta tag off of Google Chrome Frame and promote it to the Stable channel.”—MSI installer included, for IT administrators to easily deploy Chrome Frame to multiple machines.

Via Alex Russell

Tags: alex-russell, chrome, chromeframe, recovered

Quoting Microsoft spokesperson

2009-09-24T16:49:14+00:00

Given the security issues with plugins in general and Google Chrome in particular, Google Chrome Frame running as a plugin has doubled the attach area for malware and malicious scripts. This is not a risk we would recommend our friends and families take.

— Microsoft spokesperson

Tags: chrome, chromeframe, google, internet-explorer, microsoft, plugins, security

More technical details about Google Chrome Frame

2009-09-23T22:20:57+00:00

More technical details about Google Chrome Frame

It’s implemented as a Browser Helper Object, uses IE’s cookies, history and password-remembering, includes the WebKit developer tools and appends “chromeframe” to the regular IE user agent string—though not apparently the Chrome Frame version itself.

Tags: bho, chrome, chromeframe, google, internet-explorer

Quoting Charles Miller

2009-09-23T15:08:18+00:00

Ask browser users, and they'll tell you the overwhelming reason why they can't upgrade to a more modern, standards-compliant browser is because their work won't let them. Ask IT departments why this is the case and they'll point to the six- to seven-figure costs of upgrading turn-of-the-century Intranets written to work in, and only in, Internet Explorer 6. Google have provided a way for websites to opt out of IE6 (and even IE7) support without requiring enterprise-wide, Intranet-breaking browser upgrades.

— Charles Miller

Tags: charles-miller, chrome, chromeframe, google, ie6, internet-explorer

Quoting Lars Rasmussen and Adam Schuck

2009-09-23T09:59:08+00:00

In the past, the Google Wave team has spent countless hours solely on improving the experience of running Google Wave in Internet Explorer. We could continue in this fashion, but using Google Chrome Frame instead lets us invest all that engineering time in more features for all our users, without leaving Internet Explorer users behind.

— Lars Rasmussen and Adam Schuck

Tags: adam-schuck, chrome, chromeframe, google, google-wave, internet-explorer, lars-rasmussen, wave

Introducing Google Chrome Frame

2009-09-23T09:57:59+00:00

Introducing Google Chrome Frame

Here’s what Alex Russell has been up to at Google: An IE plugin (for 6, 7 and 8 on all Windows versions) which embeds the Google Chrome rendering engine—sites can then opt-in to using it by including a X-UA-Compatible meta tag. Seems to be aimed at corporate networks which mandate IE for badly written intranet applications—they can roll this out without retraining users to use another browser or breaking their existing in house apps.

Tags: alex-russell, chrome, chromeframe, google, internet-explorer, webkit, xuacompatible