Google Chrome Frame (History)

For the plot - a plugin for the late Internet Explorer, which adds the Chrome compiler and HTML 5 recognition to the Microsoft JavaScript browser!
In fact, HTML 5 was built by Microsoft into Internet Explorer, then into Edge and, finally, Microsoft in 2019 adopted the same rendering engine for its browser as Google, Blink, which removes any compatibility problems!

A stable version of Chrome Frame, available since September 22, 2010, and many sites have added code to their pages. Support and distribution was abandoned in January 2014.

This plugin runs on Internet Explorer 6, 7 and later. Google wants to break the barrier that prevents the development of the Web: the most common browser and its lack of compatibility with new standards.

When it is recognized, Internet Explorer will run WebKit, the rendering engine of Chrome and Safari, and will use an ultrafast JavaScript compiler instead of the IE interpreter.

The interest of this plugin is huge for web application compatibility and will become even greater with the integration of WebGL into Webkit, which allows you to have 3D applications in your browser: a completely different web!
WebGL has also been supported by Firefox since version 3.7 .

Since May 2011, the plugin can be installed without administrator rights, therefore, on older versions of IE that are built into the server and cannot be updated.

List of frame elements

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Use

The tag in the code of the web page will show a message asking the user to download the plugin. After installation, IE will work like Chrome and use HTML 5.

Microsoft reaction

Microsoft was not expected to appreciate this initiative, which promotes HTML 5 at the expense of their own solution, Silverlight. The firm highlights a security issue:

Given the security issues with plugins in general and Google Chrome in particular, Google Frame as a plugin doubles the attack surface for malware and scripts.

ZDNet source. Microsoft has since refocused on HTML 5.

The funny thing is that the vulnerability has just been discovered in a plugin quietly installed by Microsoft in Firefox, a Windows Presentation Foundation plugin, which Microsoft itself warns about! Microsoft explains how to disable the plugin! They are well aware of the security issues in the plugins.

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