Google Chrome Frame Increases Internet Explorer Speed
It is well known the fact that Internet Explorer browser rendering speed is quite low in case of web applications and pages which uses your system resources intensively. Google has came with a simple solution to boost the Internet Explorer performance and the level of compatibility with modern web based applications: Google Chrome Frame, a new free plug-in that will introduce Google Chrome’s web technologies and a faster JavaScript rendering engine into Internet Explorer.
By installing Google Chrome Frame plugin into Internet Explorer, the Microsoft browser will have support for HTML 5 offline features, canvas or modern CSS technologies, without the need of additional coding.
The developers just have to add a single line of code into their pages or applications:
<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”chrome=1″>
This tag has the role to redirect the users for the Google Chrome Frame download page, if the plugin is not installed yet into Internet Explorer. If the plugin is installed, then the tag is detected and the Internet Explorer rendering engine is switched automatically to the Google Chrome’s WebKit, which is faster.
Google Chrome Frame will maximize the compatibility of modern web applications with Internet Explorer browser and in the same time will dramatically increase the web pages loading speed.
Taking into account that HTML 5 technology is not yet supported even in the latest version of Internet Explorer and there is a high number of Internet Explorer users around the world, Google Chrome Frame opens new perspectives for an easier porting of web applications to Internet Explorer.
Google Chrome Frame is available for free download for Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 on Windows Vista / XP SP2.
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