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Mix and match Web browsers are a bad idea

While it's certainly amusing that Google's Chrome add-on to Internet Explorer can increase its speed by more than ten-times, it's lousy security.

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CF is a Bold move by Google!

It nice to be able to disagree with you for once :)

Lets just savour the moment - Google are going to OWN IE6!
LBH it doesn't get much better than this :)

This is a game changing play by the Google guys as it brings the war to MS's last IE holdout, the IE6 corporate lock-in.

I could not give the Wave team more praise for this move.
Once this plug-in is perfected it will *force* MS's hand.

I love this tactic - work around the problem with a technical fix, its so Google!

The security question is a non-starter.
After all IE6 users _By Definition_ are not security conscious, D'oh! Also better trust Google than MS on security, another D'oh! moment.
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I'm surprised you're backing MS on this one, Steven.

The "double the attack surface" argument is idiotic at best. It applies only if both Chrome and IE are equally (in)secure in ways that don't overlap each other. Since you've already conceded that Chrome is *more* secure than IE6, probably IE7 and maybe IE8 then adding Chrome can't double the attack surface any more than adding a brick patio to a creaky old wooden house doubles the structural weakness of the house.

The rest of your objections are speculative at best. Maybe, possibly, the IE-to-Chrome interface is vulnerable to something. Maybe, possibly, but isn't that also the same interface IE uses to call any plug-in? So it's an attack vector that's already available with or without Frame.

Speaking of speculation: "the combination of Frame and IE must be more unstable than IE alone." Really? Why, because a Mozilla exec said so? Did Baker examine the code and analyze how the plug-in works, do you think, or is he perhaps reacting to the idea that someone might do the same for Firefox? Seems to me that all Frame is doing is substituting one rendering engine for another, and doing it as a separate thread (Chrome style). It would be hard to get more unstable than IE already is, and the solution to any problem is simply not to use Frame for that page. Why don't we see what real users experience before deciding there's a problem here?



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What is your experience with networking and internet security?

Lets start with Google is using open source code as a basis for Chrome, now the code in freely available. So that means anyone with enough knowledge in C++ can read the code and find the weakness. Since the frame operates in IE the hacker now has another path inside of IE and your computer. Double the attack surface with a way to get the key to the back door.
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