Google hacks IE
GOOGLE has come up with an Internet Explorer plug-in that turns it into its own Chrome browser.
It says on the company blog that it brings Chrome's faster performance and expanded capabilities into Microsoft's standard offering.
Dubbed Google Chrome Frame, it installs as an IE add-on and starts working within the existing Internet Explorer setup.
All pages opened with Internet Exploder are then rendered with Chrome's WebKit-based engine. The advantage is that it has the more advanced HTML5 support not normally available in Microsoft's browser.
Google said that recent JavaScript performance improvements and the emergence of HTML5 have enabled web applications to do things that could previously only be done by desktop software.
One challenge developers face in using these new technologies is that they are not yet supported by Internet Explorer, it said. Since they can't afford to ignore IE, developers waste time implementing work-arounds or limiting the functionality of their apps.
"With Google Chrome Frame, developers can now take advantage of the latest open web technologies, even in Internet Explorer," the blog says
Google Chrome Frame can be installed in any version of Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8.
Chrome Frame is currently described as an "early version" intended for developers. Google claims that it enables the creation of an 'open web' free from the perils of the Vole.
The fact that it draws more punters into the Chrome universe will not harm Google either. It also means that the powers that monitor the World Wide Wibble will read hits from IE machines with the plug-in as Chrome hits.
Apparently there are also versions of the Chrome plug-in that will work with Firefox and Safari, too. µ
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just use chrome?
Tried it out and it killed my computer twice in the last few hours. I had to do a hard reboot each time because the computer was completly frozen by this google rubbish
I for one won't be touching this. All my data for search AND additional browsing tied to 1 vendor, no thanks. One on the reasons I use Firefox but not IE, and use Google butwon't use Bing! on my home PC's.
"All pages opened with Internet Exploder are then rendered with Chrome's WebKit-based engine."
Only websites that include "<meta " will be rendered with the plugin.
Combine that with IEtab, and Firefox is your ultimate web rendering test platform!
I'm not sure if I think this is a good thing or not, but it's interesting. Perhaps for IE6 users, but most people using IE6 probably can't install activex controls or any applications for that matter, so it's probably useless. As a jab at microsoft it's funny though.
I thought only the browser in Android-based mobiles was based on Webkit? Is Chromium based on Webkit too?
Downloaded and ran it... Oh dear Blue Screen crash...avoid it like the plague!!!
Are Google doing a Microsoft and starting to dumb down their normally smart decisions? Maybe regretting their bizarre decision to a) create their own browser when they had a great success already in Firefox and b) basing it on the awful Safari engine??
Were you able to hear the chairs crashing through the office windows in Redmond??
For me, developing IBM Cognos BI reports, Chrome nor FF can render the prompt select boxes in the right place. They both left-justify all screen objects. I have had improved performance installing Foxit Reader for PDF rendering. The Inquirer's pop-over flash Ads forced me to disable shockwave. At least when rendering reports in xml and html, IE appears to be the only reliable solution.
Bottom line: it has to work correctly for whatever reason. Backwards compatability cannot be chucked like bathwater with baby.
I applaud Google's efforts. Since Cognos is now IBM, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps...
All your browser are belong to us
I'm sick of Google's broken and beta code. Even their search engine's delete results system is broken (not to mention useless). Google needs to earn back its reputation of making quality products rather than adopting Microsoft's policy of having their hands in every last niche, no matter how half-baked the outcome.