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Chrome Frame May Be Coming to a Firefox Browser Near You

Posted 10/01/09 at 06:00:25 PM  by Jason Barry

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Similar to the IE Chrome Frame that Google released late last month, Mozilla suspects that Google’s engineers would have Firefox suffer the same fate.

The “Chrome Frame” idea is that within a completely different browser, Internet Explorer for example, one can view the website as Google’s Chrome browser would render it. The site can also take advantage of Chrome's latest technologies without installing a new browser.

Mozilla’s VP seemed a bit peeved about the whole thing. While it is still speculation on whether Google plans to create the plug-in, Mike Shraver, VP of engineering at Mozilla, says “I hope they won’t.” The biggest argument against Google, from Microsoft and now Mozilla, is that it over complicates the browsing process and can break certain aspects of the browser. Further, that HTML5 (supported in Chrome) is not a specified standard, and developers should be wary about developing with something that is not yet set in stone.

Ultimately, one would think Google’s thought process on the plug-in might be “one browser to rule them all,” and we all know how that turned out.

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TAGS: Software, Google, firefox, Mozilla, chrome, html5, chrome frame, css3
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avatarGeez, do the dual interfaces

Submitted by Scatter on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 5:36am

Geez, do the dual interfaces take up enough of the screen? Why the hell would I want to use something that bulky?

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avatarIt's just a mockup created

Submitted by JCBarry on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 2:22pm

It's just a mockup created for visual effect, it isn't actually what the plug-in will look like. They haven't created it yet so there aren't any screenshots.

Sorry for the confusion.

Jay Barry
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avatarI don't trust.....

Submitted by ghot on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 5:03pm

.....MS enough to use their browser, and to be honest I trust google even less.  There is entirely too much information collecting and selling....going on for my tastes.  Hell, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Google turns out to be a department within one of our govts., agencies.  How's that for a conspriacy theory  :)

 

Take an OS, and edit out all the efficiency, and what you have left is a post-XP Microsoft operating system :)

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avatarwhat?

Submitted by Zachary K. on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 4:09pm

i still dont get why you need this! just install chrome!

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avatarWhy would you do this??

Submitted by lhatten on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 4:05pm

This makes no sense.  I have been using Chrome browser for a couple of weeks now, and 2 sites did not render correctly in Chrome, but when I fired up Fire Fox they rendered OK.  One site was "fixed" in a couple of days, but it was Chrome that had the problem.  If they want an extension, why not use something like "Open in IE" only label it "Open in Chrome"?.  Open in IE works great for those few times that Fire Fox has a problem with a site.  

Oh, bye the way, I think I will return to Fire Fox.  The only plus Chrome has is that each tab has it's own process, and usually one tab won't hang the whole program.  I did have one case where I was downloading something and it hung, it also hung the entire Chrome browser and I had to kill Chrome to continue.  The thing I don't like about Chrome is the way it handles bookmarks.  I prefer to have them in my left pane.  I have a fairly large monitor (24 ") and have plenty of room for them there.  I hate to spelunk though the "Other bookmarks" folder each time I need something that is not in the bookmark bar.  Also, no extensions in Chrome yet.

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avatarIE tab

Submitted by mesiah on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 9:24pm

I use firefox and have the IE tab add on. It works great when I come across sights that just don't function properly in firefox. I just right click the link and click "Open in IE tab." and I don't have to worry about opening up a whole other browser just to access the one page. There are plenty of pages that don't render correctly on firefox, but pretty much every page renders in IE, so its a good tool to have. However, I can't possibly imagine needing the same functionality for chrome. I can't think of a single site that you would NEED to have chrome just to view properly. However, I wouldn't doubt that in the future, all google services will require the use of chrome, or a chrome frame. Thats surely one way to force your browser on the world.

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