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Google Chrome Frame is a plug-in designed for Internet Explorer based on the open-source Chromium project; it brings Google Chrome's open web technologies to Internet Explorer.

Google Chrome Frame:

Google Chrome Frame is an open source plug-in that seamlessly brings Google Chrome's open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer.

Chrome Frame support has been discontinued and it has been retired since 25-4-2014.

With Chrome Frame you can:

  • Start using open web technologies -such as the HTML5 canvas tag- right away, even technologies that aren't supported in Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, or 9.

  • Take advantage of JavaScript performance improvements to make your apps faster and more responsive.

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Break out of Google Chromeframe on submitting a form to a new window?

I use Google Chromeframe for a web app. Once in awhile I submit a form that opens up a new window (target=_blank) and streams a PDF to the browser. Is it possible to prevent GCF from handling the PDF, and instead allow IE8's adobe plugin to do the…
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Make Chrome frame installer not ask user for admin privileges?

I have an HTML5 site with canvas etc that uses Chrome frame to work on IE8 and older browsers. The installer currently (as of Oct 11 2011) asks the user for Admin privileges to 'make changes to this computer'. However in testing it seems that even…
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Using google chrome frame with Django

I am trying to use Google Chrome Frame in my Django app. Inserting into the header doesn't do the trick. Right now, this is what my header looks like:
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About X-UA-Compatibility version

Is it okay to use something like this: Or this: Or either of these…
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Window.close not working in Google-chrome-frame

I am using Google Chrome Frame to make a page render in IE as if it would in Chrome. The page opens another page via window.open() that page has nothing set for GCF but since it is opened from a page that is, it automatically is too. I have this on…
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Are Cookies left by a page in IE visible to pages browsed in Chrome Frame (and vis-versa)?

Among other things, I'm trying to track whether users who START our web app with IE, then install Chrome Frame, continue using it or "disappear" (i.e., don't get Chrome Frame installed and start the app again). One way to do that is with tracking…
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Use appcache with Chrome frame (or detect that it doesn't work)

We are building a web-application that will be used offline, using the Application Cache (and a lot more stuffs). The thing is, we wanted to ask our users with old IEs to use Google Chrome Frame, hoping it will work. But the appcache does not seems…
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Cannot close IE with chrome frame

I have an interesting issue when using IE and Chrome Frame. When logging out from my site the url is given an extra '/#/', resulting in 'https://mysite.something.com/something/#/'. This seems to, incredulously enough, hinder IE from closing when…
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Image Links Failing in IE8 when Chrome Frame is not present/disabled

If you take a look at the following website, you will see a slideshow at the top of the homepage. I am using Nivo Slider here, and it has been reported by our client that the links are not working in IE8. http://youthsolutions.com.au/ The only thing…
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Chrome Frame working on other sites in IE7 but not mine

In the head I have: