Google Chrome Frame is a plug-in for Internet Explorer that uses Chrome’s rendering engine to display web pages. It’s especially useful for those who can’t install other browsers, but want to run web applications that use HTML5 features and need a powerful JavaScript engine.
Google’s description is really beautiful: “Chrome Frame renders the Web of the future in the browsers of the past. It’s like strapping a rocket engine to a minivan.” Google thinks that Internet Explorer is a “browser of the past” that can’t handle “the Web of the future”, so it needs a plug-in to make it faster and bring it up to date.
Fortunately, Internet Explorer 9 addresses these issues and it will finally make Internet Explorer a modern browser.
Chrome experiment in Internet Explorer 6, using Chrome Frame. Screenshot licensed as Creative Commons.
