Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome

Re: Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It In... by natrius on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @03:22PM (#837705)

Are all users allowed to install browser plugins? That seems like the motivation for this. Otherwise, it seems pretty useless. IE 6 is the main problem, and the problem exists due to a lack of administrator privileges.

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Re: Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It In... by thezilch on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @06:36PM (#838164)

I wouldn't consider IE6 the "main problem." In fact, IE -- at large -- or the Microsoft, IE team should be considered the main problem. Even IE8 is horribly far behind in CSS, HTML5, JS, et al implementations -- the very thing this plugin seeks to circumvent, in more than JUST IE6.

I agree with the notion that it is still useless to those IE users that don't have privileges to install addons/plugins. However, perhaps in those IT shops where administrators are required to keep around legacy browsers for legacy plugins / software, this is a attainable middle-ground for the administrators to give their users a better foot to stand on.

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