Google Chrome Frame

Google Chrome Frame
Developer(s)Google Inc.
Initial releaseSeptember 22, 2009 (2009-09-22)
Final release32.0.1700.107 (February 1, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-02-01)) [±]
Preview release32.0.1700.76 (January 13, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-01-13)) [±]
Written inC++
EngineWebKit (based on KHTML)
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows
TypeReplacement layout engine
Websitewww.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/chrome-frame-getting-started

Google Chrome Frame was a plug-in designed for Internet Explorer based on the open-source Chromium project, first announced on September 22, 2009.[1] It went stable in September 2010, on the first birthday of the project.[2] It was discontinued on February 25, 2014 and is no longer supported.[3]

The plug-in worked with Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 and 9.[3] It allowed suitably coded web pages to be displayed in Internet Explorer by Google Chrome's versions of the WebKit layout engine and V8 JavaScript engine. In a test by Computerworld, JavaScript code ran 10 times faster with the plug-in on Internet Explorer 8.[4]

Development of Google Chrome Frame was required in order for Google Wave (now Apache Wave), which requires HTML5, to function in Internet Explorer.

The first stable version supporting Non-Admin Chrome Frame was rolled out on August 30, 2011. The newer Chrome Frame installer ran at Admin level by default and fell back to Non-Admin mode if the user didn't have the necessary permissions on their machine.[5]

  1. ^ "Introducing Google Chrome Frame". Chromium Blog. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  2. ^ "Google Chrome Frame: Stable and Speedy". Chromium Blog. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  3. ^ a b "Chrome Frame - The Chromium Projects". www.chromium.org. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  4. ^ Amy Willis (2009-09-25). "IE8 browser runs faster with Google Chrome plug-in". The Daily Telegraph.
  5. ^ "Non-Admin Chrome Frame Reaches Stable Channel". Chromium Blog. Retrieved 2020-08-14.