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Google Barks Back At Microsoft Over Chrome Frame Security

Posted by Soulskill on from the oh-no-you-di'int dept.

CWmike writes "Google hit back at Microsoft on Friday, defending the security of its new Chrome Frame plug-in and claiming that the software actually makes Internet Explorer safer and more secure. 'Accessing sites using Google Chrome Frame brings Google Chrome's security features to Internet Explorer users,' said a Google spokesman today. 'It provides strong phishing and malware protection, absent in IE6, robust sandboxing technology [in IE6 and on Windows XP], and defenses from emerging online threats that are available in days rather than months.' On Thursday, Microsoft warned users that they would double their security problems by using Chrome Frame, the plug-in that provides better JavaScript performance and adds support for HTML 5 to Microsoft's browser."

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  1. Emergency Security Update by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 2, Funny
    Microsoft announced that even though XP, Win97, Win2K, IE5 etc have been end of lifed, and will not be supported anymore, it has issued a special security update that will freeze IE5, IE6, IE7 and IE8 if Google Chrome Frame plug in is detected. After the update IE will first send a browser agent string pretending to be Google Chrome Frame, and if the website responds to it, it will crash IE and the OS with a BSOD with the message, "See? I Told ya, Google Chrome Frame is bad. It crashes everything".

    The new motto in Microsoft is "Windows 7 is not done, until Chrome Frame wont run".

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  2. Re:So, which side by Arancaytar · · Score: 2, Funny

    And then we could finally stop supporting IE in our web design and move on with the standards.

    Hell yes.

  3. Re:Illegal analogy detected. Please fix your posti by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Fear not!

    Google has released a plug-in that automatically converts non-compliant analogies on Slashdot into either car or house-front-door-unlocked analogies

    I believe it can optionally do automated library of congress conversions as well as append random critique regarding the nature of Slashdot's CSS.

  4. Re:Strategic mistake by mister_playboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Publicity has nothing to do with logic, smartypants.

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    Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law ::: Love is the law, love under will