Category Archives: chrome

Non-Admin Chrome Frame, Now Stable!

August 30, 2011 – 9:17 pm

The title says it all: you can now put a link like this in your app and users will get the stable version of either admin or non-admin Chrome Frame, depending on what rights they have on their system: <!–[if lt IE 9 ]> <p>Your browser is <em>ancient!</em> <a href="http://microsoft.com/ie">Upgrade</a> or <a href="http://www.google.com/chromeframe/?redirect=true"> install Google [...]

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“But IE 9 Is Just Around The Corner…”

September 24, 2010 – 11:03 am

The single most frustrating thing for me as a web developer is the incredible disconnect between day-to-day development and the shiny, shiny stuff showing up in HTML5 and modern browsers. It’s made all the more frustrating by bold pronouncements from any (every?) vendor about how much more awesome the web will be thanks to the [...]

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Chrome Frame Now Stable!

September 22, 2010 – 12:00 pm

Exactly a year from the original announcement, we’ve just launched a stable, ready-for-prime-time version of Chrome Frame (with MSI packages). In addition to heroic work by the whole team on improving GCF stability in the face of poorly written extensions, the biggest change in the Stable release is an astounding improvement in cold start performance [...]

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When Free Isn’t Cheap Enough

August 10, 2010 – 5:19 am

The concepts of negative externality and moral hazard describe situations where one person can impose costs on another without paying for it, often resulting in less-than optimal outcomes for everyone. That sounds a lot like what’s going on with organizations that won’t upgrade from IE6 to me. Lets quickly consider both sides of the browser [...]

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Perspective Is Not A Liquid Asset

May 5, 2009 – 1:11 pm

ZDNet has an article out discussing a study that shows that that Chrome’s (Open Source) auto-update system makes the browser more secure than the alternatives. Disclosure: Google co-authored the study. I work for Google, on Chrome. Caveat emptor. Back when I did security for a living, I quickly noted a distinction between those who saw [...]

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