Software News - netfordownload.com

Chrome sweeps carpet-bombing bug under the rug
Google has issued a second partial fix to Chrome for an infamous carpet-bombing vulnerability that affected multiple browser packages, but it is only available via the developer version of its browser.
The patch has not been published as an automatic update to general users, though it is possible for the […]

15 Must Knows About The New Chrome Browser
So, a lot of people are wondering whether Google Chrome is really worth all of the hype out there about it. In order to help you decide, here are fifteen things you should know about it:
• It’s really, really, really fast
• It goes through HTML code a lot […]

OpenOffice’s 3.0 release temporarily closes site

If you go to OpenOffice’s Web site right now, you will be greeted with this:
Apologies - our website is struggling to cope with the unprecedented demand for the new release 3.0 of OpenOffice.org. The technical teams are trying to come up with a solution.
Fortunately, however, you will also find links […]

An Optimized View
Among the items credited with altering the world as we know it, the Internet falls somewhere between the invisible-yet-ubiquitous (dust, germs) and the explosive (guns, the Bomb). In “Born Digital” John Palfrey and Urs Gasser skip the origin stories and accept the transformative power of digital technology as a given. Their interest lies […]

Safari Browser Marketshare 6.65%, IE Slides, Firefox Doubles
Microsoft InternetExplorer continued its slide in September, according to Net Applications web metrics data. IE accounted for 71.5% of the browser market share in September, down from 72.2% in August. Meanwhile, Apple Safari browser climbed to all time high of 6.65%, up from 3.26% in May. In comparison […]