Introducing Non-Admin Chrome Frame
Monday, June 20, 2011
Labels: chromeframe
We released Google Chrome Frame in September 2009 to expand the reach of modern web technologies and help developers take advantage of HTML5's capabilities. Since then, we've seen great adoption of the plug-in by end users and developers. Even more exciting, we’ve heard from developers that Google Chrome Frame is enabling them to create legacy-free apps that are easier to build, maintain, and optimize.
However, there was one remaining obstacle to making Chrome Frame accessible to users of older browsers - users needed to have administrative privileges on their machines to install Chrome Frame. At this year's Google I/O we announced this obstacle has finally been removed.
Non-Admin Chrome Frame runs a helper process at startup to assist with loading the Chrome Frame plug-in into Internet Explorer. The helper process is designed to consume almost no system resources while running. Once installed, non-admin users will have the same no-friction experience that admin users of Chrome Frame have today.
You can try it yourself by installing the new non-admin version of Chrome Frame here. This is now available in our developer channel and is coming to stable channel very soon.
For more technical details, please see the Chrome Frame FAQ. Please share your feedback in our discussion group and if you encounter any bugs while using Chrome Frame, please file them on Chromium's issue tracker. We’ll be working hard to bring Non-Admin Chrome Frame up to the beta and stable channels over the coming weeks. You can help us move this up to stable as quickly as possible by trying out the current release and sending us your feedback!
7 comments:
Andi said...
Awesome! Do you have any stats on how many people have installed Chrome Frame?
June 20, 2011 9:03 AM
E. M. said...
That's very cool. I'm wondering if this technique could be used as an attack, though. If you can install a new JS interpreter as a non-admin, can't any site ask you to install a malicious plugin that could hijack IE and do whatever it wants? Or is it still sandboxed somehow? Obviously, the user would still have to click install, but that doesn't stop a lot of trojans.
June 21, 2011 11:03 AM
Robert Shield said...
@E.M.: Chrome Frame's technique simply enables software that the user has chosen to install to load a plugin in IE. The methods it uses work within the OS security boundaries and don't open users up to anything that wasn't already possible.
June 21, 2011 5:45 PM
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Will be checking and evaluating.
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