The web browser is arguably the most important piece of software on
your computer. You spend much of your time online inside a browser: when
you search, chat, email, shop, bank, read the news, and watch videos
online, you often do all this using a browser.
Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with
sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Use
one box for everything--type in the address bar and get suggestions for
both search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites let you access
your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.
Desktop shortcuts allow you to launch your favorite Web apps straight
from your desktop. Google Chrome also uses a brand new JavaScript engine
(V8), which is much faster than existing javascript interpreters.
This
means you can create more complex and more intensive AJAX applications
with fewer speed and processing constraints. Finally, Google Chrome is
built on top of WebKit, so Google Chrome users will benefit from the
CSS3 features being added to WebKit as those features are released.
Chrome has many useful features built in, including automatic
full-page translation and access to thousands of apps, extensions, and
themes from the Chrome Web Store.
Google Chrome is one of the best solutions for Internet browsing giving you high level of security, speed and great features.
Download: Google Chrome 34.0.1847.131 | 800 KB (Freeware)
Download page: Google Chrome Offline Installer
Download: Google Chrome portable | 1.4 MB
View: Chrome Website | Release Notes
The Comodo Dragon has taken the latest Chromium technology and beefed
it up in the one way necessary to make it the optimum Browser to use on
today's malware plagued Internet - Superior Security and Privacy.
Comodo Dragon not only gives you the complete compliment of features
offered by Chromium, it also gives you Comodo's unsurpassed security and
privacy features. Comodo Dragon Security has privacy enhancements that
surpass those in Chromium's technology, has Domain Validation technology
that identifies and segregates superior SSL certificates from inferior
ones, stops cookies and other Web spies, and prevents all Browser
download tracking to ensure your privacy.
What's the difference between Google Chrome and Comodo Dragon?
The Dragon encompasses all of the best features of Chrome. It includes
an important feature every user needs to use the Internet in total
safety today – Strong security and privacy.
What makes Comodo Dragon better?
Chromium technology was engineered to offer Web users an Internet
Browser that surpassed Firefox, Opera, Safari and Internet Explorer.
Especially when it comes to functional speed, stability and convenience.
Comodo Dragon includes stronger security features.
What's new:
- Dragon is based on Chromium 33.0.1750.112.
- Drag&Drop Add-on 2 version
- PrivDog Add-on 2.1.0.22 version
Known issues:
- Dragon imports data from IE during installation instead of importing from the default browser.
- Dragon internal URLs have duplicate entries in the suggestion box.
- Dragon is not relaunched during manual update on limited account (Windows Vista).
- The Google page translation service does not work in Dragon.
Download: Comodo Dragon 33.0 | 48.4 MB (Freeware)
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View: CD Homepage | Release notes
Microsoft may be less than six months away from cutting off official support for Windows XP,
but today Google announced that users of the 12 year old operating
system can continue to expect support for running the Chrome web browser
for at least one year longer.
In a post on the official Chrome blog, Google said it will extend its Windows XP support of Chrome to April 2015. Currently, Microsoft plans to stop supporting XP on April 8th 2014. In the blog post Google stated:
We recognize that hundreds of millions of users, including a good
chunk of current Chrome users, still rely on XP. Moreover, many
organizations still run dozens or even hundreds of applications on XP
and may have trouble migrating. Our goal is to support Chrome for XP
users during this transition process. Most importantly, Chrome on XP
will still be automatically updated with the latest security fixes to
protect against malware and phishing attacks.
Net Applications' data for September shows that Windows XP is still being used by over 30 percent of all PCs worldwide,
although its market share has dropped quite a bit in the last couple of
months. Microsoft has said it wants to bring Windows XP down to below 13 percent by the support cut off date.
Source:
Google |
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One week from today, on April 8th, Microsoft will release the final public patch for Windows XP, over 12 years after the OS was first launched. However, it looks like
XP will still be used by a large fraction of PCs worldwide when support
is cut off, according to the latest data from Net Applications.
The firm, which collects unique user stats from its tens of thousands of websites, has posted its March 2014 operating systems numbers. They show Windows XP is being used by 27.69 percent of all PCs worldwide. While that is down compared to February's numbers of 29.53 percent, it still shows that XP is still the second most used operating system in the world, behind Windows 7 at 48.77 percent.
Windows 8 and 8.1 still don't come close to XP's numbers. The updated
data from March shows that Windows 8 claims 6.41 percent of the OS
market share and 8.1 is still behind at 4.89 percent, despite being
released as a free update to Windows 8 users. Combined, Windows 8 and
8.1 claim 11.3 percent of the OS market share, up just slightly from
February's 10.68 percent.
However, the focus this month is on Windows XP and the fact that
Microsoft will soon cut off support to an OS that many people around the
world are still using inside their PCs. While the general public won't
get any more XP updates after April 8th, many companies such as banks and even parts of the U.S government
will pay big bucks to Microsoft for extended support contracts that
will allow them to get updates until they upgrade to a more recent
version of Windows.
Even though Microsoft has been warning the public for years about the
XP support cut off date, and the dangers in continuing to use the OS
beyond April 8th, there are some parties out there, such as the anti-virus company AVAST,
who believe Microsoft still needs to keep XP software updates going for
a while longer. It won't be long before we know which strategy is the
correct one.
Source:
Net Applications |
Image via Net Applications
