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I recall that when I first read about Google’s Chrome Frame my first thought was why. Why does Google care if Internet Explorer users can render a web page correctly or not? Shouldn’t this be a concern of Microsoft and not Google? What impact will adding Chrome Frame pose if it were added to Internet Explorer? It didn’t take long before others were asking the same question, especially the folks over at Mozilla who have developed the Firefox browser. In a recent article it states the following: Mitchell Baker, former Mozilla CEO and current chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation, and Mike Shaver, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering, both lamented Google’s release of Chrome Frame in blog posts. The browser experts, who helped Mozilla’s Firefox browser reach 23.8 percent market share largely at the expense of IE, are concerned Chrome Frame will further muddy the already cloudy waters of a fragmented browser market. Baker worried that once a Web browser has fragmented into multiple rendering engines, it’s very hard to manage information across Websites. Chrome Frame, she said, will make the Web even more unknowable and confusing. Baker noted: “Image you download Chrome Frame. You go to a website. What rendering engine do you end up using? That depends on the website now, not on you. And if you end up at a website that makes use of the Chrome Frame, the treatment of your passwords, security settings, personalization, all the other things one sets in a browser is suddenly unknown. Will sites you tag or bookmark while browsing with one rendering engine show up in the other? Because the various parts of the browser are no longer connected, actions that have one result in the browser you think you’re using won’t have the same result in the Chrome browser-within-a-browser. “At first glance this looks like it might be a useful option, offering immediate convenience to website developers in alleviating a very real pain. But a deeper look reveals significant negative repercussions.” Shaver echoed Microsoft when he noted running Chrome Frame within IE bogs down private browsing mode or Microsoft’s other security controls. It would appear that this is Google’s way to gain more market share and not actually help Internet Explorer users. What do you think? Source Eweek | 
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