14 DAY TRIAL // The non-admin Google Chrome Frame, which can be installed by regular users on their work computers, has reached the stable channel. Google has been working on a solution for users that don't have administrator rights, which is basically anyone that needs to use the Chrome Frame, for quite some time, and finally debuted it on the dev channel and later on the beta channel.
The stable version of the non-admin Google Chrome Frame is now ready for anyone to install. What's more, now there is just one Chrome Frame installer for both administrators and regular users.
"A few months ago, we introduced Non-Admin Google Chrome Frame on the developer channel for testing. We deployed it to the beta channel two weeks ago and we are now bringing Non-Admin to the stable channel," Greg Thompson, software engineer at Google, said.
If you've been holding on for a stable version of the Chrome Frame that could be installed with ease on any computer, this is it.
Of course, if you've been using the beta or dev channel version, simply because they were the only ones that could be installed by non-admin users, you can now switch back to the stable channel.
You need to uninstall the beta or dev version of the Chrome Frame first. It's best to close Internet Explorer when uninstalling it. Then simply grab the stable version and install that.
Google also improved the installer, with the new stable release. Now, the installer tries to deploy the admin level version if it can, but switches back to the non-admin one if the user doesn't have these privileges. This means that there's only one installer for all users.
With this update, the Google Chrome Frame is finally able to address all users. One of the main reasons why someone would want Chrome Frame is because they're stuck with IE8. But if they had admin privileges, required until now to install Chrome Frame, they would have just grabbed the full Google Chrome instead.
Google Chrome Frame is available for download here.