Microsoft Says Google Chrome Frame Makes IE Less Secure 459
Mark writes "The release of Google Chrome Frame, a new open source plugin that injects Chrome's renderer and JavaScript engine into Microsoft's browser, earlier this week had many web developers happily dancing long through the night. Finally, someone had found a way to get Internet Explorer users up to speed on the Web. Microsoft, on the other hand, is warning IE users that it does not recommend installing the plugin. What does the company have against the plugin? It makes Internet Explorer less secure. 'With Internet Explorer 8, we made significant advancements and updates to make the browser safer for our customers,' a Microsoft spokesperson told Ars. 'Given the security issues with plugins in general and Google Chrome in particular, Google Chrome Frame running as a plugin has doubled the attack area for malware and malicious scripts. This is not a risk we would recommend our friends and families take.'"
kettle/black (Score:5, Funny)
Friends? (Score:5, Funny)
Friends don't let friends use Internet Explorer anyway.
Well yes (Score:5, Funny)
Ofcourse it makes it less secure, it lets you run Javascript faster, so that all those drive-by malware installers can execute faster!
Re:Friends? (Score:5, Funny)
'This is not a risk we would recommend our friends and families take.'
They have friends, much less family?
It's alright (Score:5, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Ingrates! (Score:4, Funny)
a new open source plugin that injects Chrome's renderer and JavaScript engine into Microsoft's browser, earlier this week had many web developers happily dancing long through the night.
Dancing Developers?? Get back to developing webs, like you're supposed to be doing! Didn't anybody tell you that you are no good at dancing?
Re:I'm Taking Notes (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Thanks (Score:5, Funny)
Not only an argument directly from Microsoft against Silverlight but also against Flash!
Why is Microsoft helping us like that?
Ralph (Score:2, Funny)
As Ralph Wiggum would say:
That's unpossible!
Risk? I'll give you risk... (Score:2, Funny)
Families (Score:5, Funny)
This is not a risk we would recommend our friends and families take.
Especially the children. Think of the children!
He should have used "mortal danger" instead of simply "risk". Also, change "would recommend" for "let". And add some exclamations, for god's sake, this is serious.
Thus, the closing sentence should be:
"This is not a mortal danger we let our children take!"
However, once you've decided to push factless crap with fear mongering, at least do it with style.
I recommend:
"If you allow your children to install the google demon, your entire family will suffer an eternity of pain, in HELL!"
Re:kettle/black (Score:5, Funny)
My family disowned me after I installed it. (Score:4, Funny)
I have great respect for Google (Score:4, Funny)
But I doubt that even they could make IE less secure than it already is.
Hey! (Score:2, Funny)
>Microsoft Says Google Chrome Frame Makes IE Less Secure
Everyone knows Microsoft Is What Makes IE Less Secure!
~ there...fixed that for you.
Re:Double Standards (Score:2, Funny)
Well, yes, you see, the .NET plug-in was meant to increase compatibility without increasing the risk of attack vectors.
Trust us, we know what is good for you,
Microsoft
Re:Security issues with Google Chrome? (Score:5, Funny)
News: Vulnerability in google chrome
News: Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
News: Some part of Internet explorer is safe!
See? :)
Re:kettle/black (Score:4, Funny)
Wrong. People in glass houses shouldn't undress.
Re:kettle/black (Score:5, Funny)
Making IE less secure is like making water more wet.
Re:Friends? (Score:5, Funny)
I find the lack of mention of children and terrorists disturbing.
Re:Friends? (Score:5, Funny)
...the new developers were pushing to make IE more complaint in the future.
Technically, they have succeeded. IE 7 and 8 are more complaint.
Feel the delicious irony from an incorrect vowel transposition!
Re:kettle/black (Score:5, Funny)
Even if that person is Bree Olson?
Gah, knew I shouldn't have googled her at work.
Re:kettle/black (Score:4, Funny)
>>Wrong. People in glass houses shouldn't undress.
No - people in glass houses should undress... but people shouldn't buy glass houses unless they're hot 21-year-old nurses.
Re:kettle/black (Score:3, Funny)
Bah, If I wanted to see that, I'd just undress a Barbie doll.
Re:kettle/black (Score:5, Funny)
You misspelled "ogled."
Re:kettle/black (Score:1, Funny)
leaving dynamic content to a totally separate system....
Like Flash?
Re:kettle/black (Score:4, Funny)
IE already has extensions, it has for AGES. At least since IE 5.5.
How do you think Google Toolbar runs in IE? Magic? Powdered unicorn horn? Hell, THIS VERY SLASHDOT STORY is about an IE extension.
What the hell drug did Mozilla give everybody to make them think IE doesn't have extensions? I feel like I'm the last human left and everybody else has been replaced by body-snatchers!!