Google Updates Chrome Frame, Makes IE Better

superapecommando writes "Google updated Chrome Frame, a plugin that embeds the company's Chrome browser engine into rival Microsoft's Internet Explorer, to a beta version. As it did last year, Google cast Chrome Frame today as a way for IE users to instantly boost the notoriously slow JavaScript speed of their browser and let them access sites and web applications that rely on standards that IE doesn't support, primarily HTML5."

Software Restriction Policies

[tepples]

Even with installation restrictions, there are 'portable' versions of alternative browsers.

The restrictions go deeper. Have you ever run into a Unix system where all end-user-writable directories (including /home and /media) were mounted noexec for security purposes? Windows has a similar feature, called Software Restriction Policies [microsoft.com], which can deny execution of a program based on folder location (as in Linux) or based on lack of the IT department's digital signature.

Shakes head

[Anonymous Coward]

Arg, my head hurts now.

That said, I think you mean IE Tab 2; the original is apparently deprecated.

Re:HTML5 is no standard

[tepples]

Javascript in IE is hardly 'notoriously' slow

It's slow enough that web developers have to work around IE's slow JavaScript engine and lack of other features useful to web applications by making web applications significantly less sophisticated.

(yeah I'm sure some faggoty benchmark with no real-world value 'proves' it)

Every new web technology is implemented in "some faggoty benchmark with no [apparent] real-world value" before it gets implemented in an ad-supported or subscription-supported web site. The main reason that HTML5 technologies aren't used on more publicly accessible web sites is because 53 percent of the audience is still using IE.

Chromium Blog URL

[IYagami]

http://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/google-chrome-frame-now-in-beta.html [chromium.org]

Google Chrome Frame - Now in Beta
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Web developers have been itching to develop with HTML5 but have been held back by legacy browsers. Google Chrome Frame can help break this impasse by allowing applications to target HTML5 on versions of Internet Explorer. Today, we're excited to announce that Google Chrome Frame has graduated from Developer Preview into Beta.

Since our initial launch, we've been listening to developers: Instead of adding new bells and whistles, we've fixed more than 200 bugs to make integration with Internet Explorer seamless while improving security, stability, and performance. For example, we've improved our handling of Internet Explorer's InPrivate browsing, cache clearing, and cookie blocking. All of the enhancements and features of Google Chrome 5.0 are available in Google Chrome Frame too, including HTML5 audio and video, canvas, geolocation, workers, and databases.

As we've worked on these improvements, we've been excited to see sites adopting Google Chrome Frame, including Meebo and all the blogs hosted by WordPress. In addition to our launch partner Google Wave, some other Google properties, including Orkut and YouTube are also relying on Google Chrome Frame to deliver HTML5 experiences to millions of users.

For those of you who want to develop HTML5 applications and deploy them broadly, we encourage you to give Google Chrome Frame a try. Existing users will be auto-updated to the beta, so if you downloaded Google Chrome Frame before, you'll automatically get the new version. We're also creating a new dev channel release, where you can try out the cutting-edge features we're developing. For information on getting started with Google Chrome Frame, our project documentation is the place to start.

We're always working hard to improve, so expect further enhancements and performance improvements in both the developer and beta versions in the coming weeks. You can help by giving us feedback and filing bugs, and we'll have more to share in the days ahead.

Posted by Amit Joshi, Software Engineer, and Alex Russell, Software Engineer

Re:Sorry for troll, but FF has better UI? Seriousl

[Darkness404]

See, thats what I don't like. I really have no desire to have anything other than bookmarks appear in the search bar and really would like to disable history altogether (I never understood the point of it to begin with) and Chrome doesn't give that option.