Preparing for the general launch of Google Wave to 100,000 users next week, Google's Chrome Web browser team today released Google Chrome Frame, an open-source plug-in that enables Chrome's WebKit rendering engine to run in Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

The problem, the Chrome team said, is that IE does not adequately support newer Web technologies such as HTML5 or offer the performance boost associated with JavaScript.

However, IE has a market share of 67 percent despite the steady nibbling from Mozilla Firefox and Chrome, so Google had to create Google Chrome Frame as a workaround, particularly for corporate users pinned to IE.