Category Archives: work

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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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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Chrome Frame Dev Channel and Testing Gotchas

July 1, 2010 – 2:17 pm

So you’re making the new shiny — ’cause that’s how you roll — and you’re thinking to yourself “hrm, I’ve told users of legacy browsers to get Chrome Frame or upgrade, but there’s this new awesome feature in the Chrome Developer Channel…but it’s not in the version of Chrome Frame I’m testing with. I thought [...]

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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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Ending The ga.js Wait

April 11, 2009 – 9:10 pm

Google Analytics is ubiquitous, not least of all because it’s better at what it does than most of the alternatives. Also, it doesn’t require any install or maintenance. And it’s free. What’s not to like? Frankly, not much, but if I had to nit pick, I’d note that the worst part of Google Analytics is [...]

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