Google releases IE Plug-in chrome frame (Google browser framework) official version

According to the Google Chrome blog, in order to compete for the market share of IE browsers, Google launched a browser plug-in specifically for IE 6, 7, 8 and other versions, google chrome frame, the browser looks like ie menus and interfaces, but Google Chrome kernel is used when users browse the Web page.

After running the plug-in, your IE browser will obtain Chrome's performance and functions. Chrome frame allows the old version of IE browser to use Chrome's WebKit rendering engine to process web pages. Therefore, the old version of IE users can experience many modern web page technologies, including HTML5. After google chrome frame is installed, add Cf: In front of the address to use WebKit core browser page, for example: Cf: http://www.williamlong.info/

According to statistics, IE6 users still have a market share of 16%, and these users are still insisting on using Windows XP. In addition, Microsoft's latest ie9 browser will not support the XP system.

Google software engineers Tomas Gunnarsson and Robert shield said in the Chromium Development blog: "The chrome frame plug-in is currently in stable release, it allows users to use modern web technologies such as HTML5 in earlier browsers."

The two engineers also said: "after several months of development, the chrome frame plug-in has been running three times faster on Windows Vista and Windows 7, the problem of incompatibility with other plug-ins has been fixed."

With the official release of chrome frame, chrome frame will enter the same update cycle as chrome (updated once every 6 weeks ). The two engineers said: "We have set a goal for future versions: we are improving the running speed and removing the administrator privilege requirements during installation ."

Google said that Google documentation, Gmail, Google Calendar and other services have added support for chrome frame.

Chrome frame Plugin: http://www.google.com/chromeframe