Mozilla’s Reply: Chrome Frame Will Result in “Browser Soup”
Mozilla and Microsoft are always opposite when it comes to browser technology, but now, they agree broadly on one thing: Google plug-in for IE Chrome Frame. Mozilla executives today took shots at Google for pitching its Chrome Frame plug-in as a solution to Internet Explorer’s poor performance, with one arguing that Google’s move will result in “browser soup.”
Last week, Chrome Frame released, which can let IE6, IE7 and IE8 utilize the Chrome browser’s WebKit rendering engine, as well as its high-performance V8 JavaScript engine. Google pitched the plug-in as a way to instantly improve the performance of the notoriously slow IE, and as a way for Web developers to support standards IE can’t handle, including HTML 5. As a new weapon of Google, Microsoft don’t agree with Google of course.
Nowadays, Mitchell Baker, the former CEO of Mozilla and currently the chairman of the Mozilla Foundation, disagreed with Google’s tactic to slip Chrome inside IE. Strongly.
“The overall effects of Chrome Frame are undesirable,” she said in an entry to her personal blog late Monday. “I predict positive results will not be enduring and — and to the extent it is adopted — Chrome Frame will end in growing fragmentation and loss of control for most of us, including Web developers.”
According to Baker, Chrome Frame’s browser-in-a-browser will confuse users and render some of their familiar tools useless.
As we all know, Mozilla is a partner of Google and Firefox’s most incomes comes from Google. Nowadays, It seems that Mozilla just wants to side with Microsoft against Google, which is amazing indeed.
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