Google Is Getting Better At Turning IE Into Chrome As Chrome Frame Goes Beta
June 08, 2010 at 17:59 PM EDT
Back in September of last year, Google unveiled an early look at an interesting (and rather hilarious) new project: Chrome Frame . What it does is take Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser and basically turn it into Google Chrome via a plug-in. Today, that plug-in has progressed enough that Google is graduating it to full beta status. " We think it's really stable ," engineer Alex Russell tells us in noting the move to beta. To use Chrome Frame, all a user has to do is go here and install the plug-in on either IE6, IE7, or IE8 running on Windows 7, Vista, or XP. For developers, it's even easier to target these users: they just have to include a meta tag in their sites' code and their pages will start to render in IE (with Chrome Frame installed) just as they would in Chrome itself.