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Chrome spinoff released by SRWare
Author: Gareth HalfacreePublished: 25th September 2008
Iron - based on the Chrome source code made freely available from Google - is available from the SRWare website.
According to DownloadSquad, Iron is a privacy-enhanced version of Google's surprise entry into the browser market. Based on the same source code as the main trunk, the German-developed Iron removes some of Google's oversight from your browsing history by removing the unique tag used to identify each user, remove the functionality that reports usage back to Google, stops server error messages from being forwarded through Google, and removes both the crash reporting and automatic updating functionality.
What you're left with is a pared-down version of the increasingly popular Chrome browser for users who think that Google has had quite enough insight into their personal data, thank you very much.
Documentation on the project is somewhat sparse – and in German, to boot – but in theory, as the project only requires the removal of functionality and not addition, it should be relatively straightforward for the team at SRWare to keep Iron updated with security patches and bugfixes as they are provided by Google.
Whether you consider it fair play to take the functionality developed and offered freely by Google in exchange for just a teensy bit more of your personal data is between you and your conscience.
Are there any Chrome holdouts a bit more willing to give it a go now that Google's all-seeing eye has been blindfolded, or is it still a poor competitor in an increasingly strong marketplace? Share your thoughts over in the forums.
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Iron: downloading now, lets see what all the fuss is about :p
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Still not gonna tempt me away from Firefox, I'm afraid. Although it does negate some of my dislikes of Chrome.
no, i dont do my online banking with it.
uninstalled, I'll be more interested when its not quite so bare
firefox cheesecake!
yey for no-script blocking that!
I like Chrome - then again, I also like programming with Notepad and the command prompt. Your Preferences May Vary.
Any website with a competent administrator has some sort of analytics on it (most often Google as it's free, but there are a number of other services), and they all keep server logs.
Aye, I know the first bit. It's good to be able to keep track of hits and so on. ;)
Didn't realise the Google version was free, though. :)
This is a good thing
Sad to say, But no, A lot do though. :D
Chrome has too many show stopping bugs (not too many niggling bugs though) and not enough features to streamline my internets.