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Microsoft Says Google Chrome Frame Makes IE Less Secure
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.'"
Both of those definitions require something amusing in the first place.
Not really. I know a few people who also switched back to IE8 because of the memory holes in FF and other assorted reasons. I haven't myself but mostly because the extensions I use aren't all available for IE. If IE really got on the whole extension thing I think it would be an entirely different ballgame.
"But this one goes to 11!"
I'm running IE8 on vista... security hasn't been an issue for me.
FF started getting too slow compared to IE, both in load time and render time. The constant updates to addons started getting to be more annoying than anything else, and FF 3.5 is ugly. In the end I went with something that just works.. and as far as standards complaince goes, I haven't seen IE8 rending anything differently than FF 3.5.