Google China and the Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba have joined forces to enable Chrome users to use Alipay’s digital certificates. Chrome users will be able to connect their Alipay accounts to their online banking usernames and passwords, via Alipay’s “Kuaijie Zhifu” (“Fast Pay”) product, in order to make online payments without the need to log into their banks' websites. Initially, the service was available only for the browsers based on the lE rendering engine, requiring users of Firefox and Chrome to switch browsers or download a plug-in to enable them to use IE from within their preferred browser.
