Google Barks Back At Microsoft Over Chrome Frame Security

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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Re:So, which side

[mystik]

I'm from a small org, fully embracing the leading edge.

But I can See the following scenario:

1) Org has large internal App written for IE6 only. Can't upgrade so users are forced to have IE6 on their workstations
2) Org's IT admins are well aware of the security problems IE6 forces them to work around.
3) Roll out the Chrome plugin, and set things up so everything *but* the internal site uses Chrome.

Installing IE upgrades makes it difficult to leave an ie6 & ie_latest deployment side-by-side in a 'supported' fashion (Unless ms has a 'supported' way of doing this?)

Using the Chrome plugin lets the Org upgrade the browser to something maintained & more secure on their deployment, while allowing the archaic app to work as expected.

Does anyone care?

[amiga3D]

I'm thinking that IE users' primary concern is not security or they'd be using something else to begin with.

Sigh... shortsighted are we?

[SmallFurryCreature]

Google is at war and its goal is the liberate the browsers and allow them to be everything they can be.

Evil Microsoft has poor IE as a hostage and is doing terrible things with it. It could be so much but forced into ghetto conditions it is backwards and idiotic.

Direct war with the evil Microsoft is hard but Google is dropping supplies behind enemy lines to help as much as possible. Luxuries other browsers can take for granted are dropped in the form of javascript libraries so that IE can still at least somewhat come along no matter how slow.

Now with this new weapon of peace the evil Microsoft can be twarthed like never before, every IE that dares can now be free and standup like a real browser with all the features those in the free world have come to taken for granted.

There is not going to be one single succesful strategy to liberate the browser, but liberated it will be. Google needs freedom more then any true american company needs air to breath. The communist Microsoft (All for one OS and one OS for all) shall be vanquished. It will not happen overnight, but it will happen.

For the humor impaired: Google needs fast capable browsers because that is where it does its business. If MS can't produce a capable browser then it got 3 options: advertise other browser (firefox), produce its own to push the cutting edge (Chrome forced firefox to become quicker) and to augment the least capable browsers to support current standards. It will have to push hard from different directions to achieve this but success has already been made. MS has had to work very hard with IE and you can see from their response about this plugin in that they are very scared indeed about the browser becoming more capable.

This battle is NOT about getting people to install Chrome or Firefox, it is about having them surf the web with a capable browser so Google can push new features and not have to constintly cripple their application for an obsolete piece of software.