While browsers adopted more specifics of HTML5, Google announced that it will stop support for its Chrome Frame plugin for Internet Explorer.

One year after the availability of the first version of the Chrome browser, Google announced new attempt to democratize Internet usage. To this end the company had launched Chrome Frame, a plugin to completely change the engine of IE6, 7 or 8 rendering on Windows XP SP2 and Vista to replace WebKit and are also add Chrome V8 JavaScript engine.

The engineer, Robert Shield, said on the Chromium blog project that plugin no longer has reason to be supported. "Today most people use a modern browser that supports the most recent Web technologies," he says, adding that the mechanisms of automatic updates have facilitated the adoption. Since Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft strengthens compatibility gradually with elements of HTML5/CSS3.


Chrome Frame will no longer receive updates in January 2014. Web developers were able to encourage users with an older version of Internet Explorer to install one-click plugin in order to correctly view this content. They are invited to submit them to directly update the browser.

At Cnet U.S. President Gary Schare Browsium and formerly at Microsoft in the Internet Explorer division, says that Chrome Frame was unusable for the companies. The plugin had "no control" over the content loaded. He added: "If there were a security breach, any fraudulent site could exploit and make a mess."