According to The Register, Asa Dotzle from Mozilla Corp. said that this idea of a plug-in much like the one that Google Chrome uses was discussed two years ago. The idea was to try to make Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser much faster, this would have been achieved by using the Firefox JavaScript engine.

Google thought that there was something good to offer an IE plug-in, which they released last September. Google have also been working hard on Google Wave and have made certain that Internet Explorer is able to run the new software.

Microsoft and Mozilla were not happy about this as they feel that the Chrome Frame would undermine not only the security but privacy as well. The move would also throw a huge amount of confusion if implanted.

In short, Chrome Frame is a plug-in. It’s like Flash. It doesn’t talk to things around it in the ways that it should.

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The open-source plug-in previously worked only with Firefox and Internet Explorer, but now a version is available for the new developer preview version of Chrome, according to a blog post.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with WOT, it’s a kind of community-powered rating service. Users submit trust, privacy, reliability, and child safety scores for sites they visit. When you browse a site that’s in the WOT database, you’ll see the result of those ratings in easy-to-understand color coding. Green is good, red is bad, yellow means exercise caution.

If you want to have a try, the new extension for Chrome can be downloaded from the Wiki, though it’s a bit hidden in all the text. As an important step for Google Chrome add-ons system, Web of Trust is really worth using.

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