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Using Chrome Frame is just a matter of adding "<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge,chrome=1">" to a page. I haven't used it yet, but the Chrome team recently announced at Google I/O that users can install Chrome Frame without the need for admin rights. Given that Google is taking an effort to promote Chrome Frame and making it accessible to several users restricted by corporate IT policies, there should be more adopters soon.

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Google are actively encouraging people to circumvent corporate IT policies?! No wonder so many corporate IT departments are sticking by Microsoft: at least they make it reasonably straightforward for sysadmins to manage policies across a whole workplace.

I hadn't heard of Chrome Frame until this discussion, but the basic suggestions at http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/ sound a lot like "This page best viewed in $BROWSER at $RESOLUTION". Didn't we learn that lesson yet?

"I hadn't heard of Chrome Frame until this discussion"

> Google I/O 2011 - http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/sessions/html5-today-wi...

> Google I/O 2010 - http://www.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/using-chrome-f...

"at least they make it reasonably straightforward for sysadmins to manage policies across a whole workplace."

> Google recently came up Administrative templates for Chrome. But I wonder why they didn't push it enough to IT departments - http://www.google.com/support/installer/bin/answer.py?answer...

I appreciate the links from a personal perspective, but they don't seem to contradict the advice on the Google Chrome Frame project page I mentioned, which actually suggests redirecting users to an installation page if they visit your site in IE and don't already have GCF installed. That sort of tactic is usually associated with either malware or the 1990s where I come from...

In any case, there is something very shady about the whole project. If people want to use Chrome, let them use Chrome, but please let's not start making IE pretend it's Chrome (or was it the other way around?). How on earth are corporate IT support people supposed to deal with requests for help from non-technical people once we start down that path?

I know it's very simple (I read the docs) but looking at the project bug tracker it looks like there is bugs here and there [1].

Just asking if it works well.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list?can=2&q=la...

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