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

[SanityInAnarchy]

You're obviously not a web developer.

I can develop a site in Firefox, with Firebug, Firecookie, and all the other nice developer tools. That means I can stay on Linux, OS X, whatever I'm comfortable with.

I can then test it out in Chrome, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, Epiphany -- hell, there's a fair chance it'll work on iCab -- and only require very minor tweaks.

Then I can test it out in IE, and discover I've got a few days of work. Especially if I wanted to target IE6. Easily 20-30% of my time developing a site is spent fighting with IE.

No other browser is that much of a bitch to support.

In other words: Google isn't doing this because they're evil, or because they want everyone to run Chrome. (Even if they did, so what? Chrome is open source.) They're doing it to make life easier on all web developers, including themselves. They're also doing it to make the web better, in general -- faster Javascript, HTML5 support, and better support for web standrads...

So, it really doesn't seem likely Google would care to port this to other browsers that actually work.