On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:46 PM, tjp <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://blogs.computerworld.com/14797/google_chome_add_in_for_ie_speed_demon_or_big_fat_security_hole > > "Google's just released Chrome add-in for Internet Explorer can speed up IE > by as much as 10 times, tests show. But if you listen to Microsoft, it also > leaves you more vulnerable to malware and Web-based attacks. Who should you > believe?" > > This is a variation on Google trying to take over and reengineer the iPhone > with GoogleVoice, except this time it is going after M$. My first reaction > is holy cow, are M$ programmers such jerks that Google can so easily speed > up IE by ten fold. Then I wonder if our WFBs will so vigorously defend > Google now that the shoe is on the other foot. > > Apparently google's programmers were frustrated by IE's lack of HTML 5 that they wrote the chrome plugin as a work around the backward nature of IE. This was to allow a new google beta release to work in IE. My guess is part of the speed up is them by passing IE's security filters. -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o)
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