Google fights Microsoft flames over Chrome

Testing Chrome Frame on OGGTV.com, only shows the advanced HTML5 features of Chrome inside if IE.

Everyone is going to watch the two companies flex their "media-power" on the issue, while IE users now have more web features available to them.

Enhance security and speed it might, however stability is out of the question! I've managed to crash my otherwise _clean_ IE8 several times while testing some AJAX based sites.
To open any site you want you need to put cf: in front of the address. However GF does not remember it and navigation goes back to standard IE rendering after the first link...

Read the Google blog post. They say it's still not ready for general use and should be used by developers only.

Always taking the stupid approach at things.

By saying that BS users aren't going to believe they're just restricting Internet Exploder. I know they might be trying to stop google from converting their browser into a "lame version of the chrome browser" (Which may be google's aim with this plugging, hmmmmm), but they should've played it other way.

Like marketing their browser as a customizable browser compatible with new technologies. If the plugging fails, then right there they can blame google.

Not before thus looking vulnerable and afraid.

for someone that matters to say that for like, ever.

Yay!

This makes baby Jesuz LOL
IE is the genesis joke of browserland. IE8 is no exception.

Microsoft can't win this argument. Even if what they say is true, the ability to add an "insecure plugin" was put there by Microsoft, and should be considered the security hole that allowed the security hole.

The second "flaw" can't exist if they didn't create the first one.

Well, having absolutely no idea about that plugin it does sound reasonable that such a speed increase comes at a price and from a company that likes to keep track of everything on the interwibble, that just sound like a lot of corners to improve that could have been cut. More speed less security.. well, that's what Anti-whatever-software is for, but still.. that's not quite perfect either.

To correct the many insecurities mentioned by Microsoft, someone should develop a plugin that completely erases both Internet Exploder AND Windows from your PC (replacing it with Ubuntu/Kubuntu) while retaining your documents and bookmarks. That really would be the only way to stop the ever-developing flow of Windows viruses into your PC.

Oh yeah, I guess the Ubuntu live CD already kind of does that, for free.

If Google themselves state that only developers should use it, and that it's not for "general use," they only lend ammunition to Microsoft's argument that a half-baked product like that can be a security hazard. It tarnishes their reputation when they present their wares as more than beta-level software.

It wouldn't be a plug'in to run Googles new evil scripting language? Sure you can play games and everything, that's because it has direct access to your kernal layer and it then has access to all of your hardware directly. That's why it is so fast, it by-passes everything and puts Googles flimsy weak security in place that makes WEP look uncrackable.. ROTFLMAO
Even Microsoft or Apple isn't as deeply stupid to give there browsers (or any app or script etc for that matter) equal access to the hardware layer as there OS....

Looking at the previous comment - I read it - re-read it - thought about it some more - and came to the conclusion that minotaur is just trolling ...

1) What evil scripting language - please tell us ?
2) direct access to the kernel - just like any other user mode app - via kernel api's - that's what operating systems are for
3)ROTFLMAO - no you got me there - is that something the youths of today say to each other - not sure how to pronounce it even
4)Equal access to the hardware layer - there you go again - no it's user mode just like any app

You're just giving trolls a bad name - try again please

Intalled chrome frame this Am, played with it a few hours and it is fast!!! Oh, oh, they,re coming.......

Don't you just love it when the brightest and best educated of our modern children/students actually try to use real words to form coherent thoughts.

As a former high school teacher and retired corporate slug, I chuckle when I imagine how their resumes read and what they put on employment applications.

Case in point, the total lack of understand of the proper use of "there" and "their". Or just sloppy writing and proofing either of which would have gotten -20 points.

Oh well, cheap entertainment.

Still laughing at the amount of nonsense that minotaur has managed to write in a single comment! ;)

"Even Microsoft or Apple isn't as deeply stupid to give there browsers (or any app or script etc for that matter) equal access to the hardware layer as there OS...." ..... posted by : Minotaur, 27 September 2009

Minotaur,

They don't need to be deeply stupid, just not as SMART as browsers.

* AIdDouble Negative and therefore Positive Progress to Higher Levels of Confusion for Absolute Control and Power Brokerage?

Entertainment indeed, although I find the number of grammatical errors in your reply more amusing than what I suspect is a horrible troll post. Your penultimate paragraph contains three errors and some questionable usage on top of those, quite impressive given its brevity.

Please fill us in on these errors... Maybe Google Chrome should have been used along with A grammar check

Thanks Google. Now all we need is a Linux plug-in for Windows to free ourselves!

Oh wait, there's VMWare! Yay!