SRWare Iron
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 Iron 6.0.475.1 on Puppy Linux 5.1.1 Lucid Puppy | |
| Developer(s) | SRWare |
|---|---|
| Initial release | September 18, 2008[1] |
| Stable release | 9.0.600.1
/ February 14, 2011[2] |
| Engine | WebKit |
| Operating system | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows |
| Size | 16.2 MB (Iron 9.0.600.0 for Windows) |
| Type | Web browser |
| License | BSD license |
| Website | Official website |
SRWare Iron, or simply Iron, is a free and open-source web browser implementation of Chromium[2] which primarily aims to eliminate usage tracking and other privacy-compromising functionality that the Google Chrome browser includes.[3] While Iron does not provide extra privacy compared to Chromium, it does implement some additional features that distinguish it from Google Chrome, such as built-in ad blocking.[1][3]
On 11 August 2010, Microsoft updated the BrowserChoice.eu website in order to include Iron as one of the possible choices.[4]
Development history
Iron was first released on 18 September 2008, 16 days after Chrome's initial release. On 22 January 2009 a developer preview was released.[5]
More recent versions of Iron have since been released, which have gained the features of the underlying Chromium codebase, including theme support, a user agent switcher, an extension system, and improved Linux support.[1]
On 7 January 2010 an initial version for Mac OS X was released.[6]
Differences from Chrome
The following Google Chrome features are removed or disabled on Iron:[7][8]
- RLZ identifier, an encoded string sent together with all queries to Google[9] or once every 24 hours.
- Google search access on startup for users with Google as default search[10][11]
- A unique ID ("clientID") for identifying the user in logs.
- A timestamp of when the browser was installed.
- Google-hosted error pages when a server is not present
- Google Updater automatic installation.
- DNS pre-fetching, because it could perhaps be used by spammers[12].
- Automatic address bar search suggestions.
- Bug tracking system, sends information about crashes or errors.
See also
References
- ^ a b c Iron news page
- ^ a b New Iron-Version: 6.0.475 Stable for Windows
- ^ a b SRWare (undated). "SRWare Iron: The Browser of the future - Overview". Retrieved 18 July 2010.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|year=(help)CS1 maint: year (link) - ^ Kai Schmerer (10 August 2010). "Microsoft aktualisiert Browser-Auswahlbox". ZDnet. Retrieved 10 September 2010.Template:De icon
- ^ Iron beta news and download
- ^ Iron for MacOS X
- ^ Whats the difference between Iron and Chrome?
- ^ "Privacy, unique IDs, and RLZ - Google Chrome".
- ^ "Google Chrome, Chromium, and Google". Retrieved 28 January 2010. See Which Google Domain
- ^ "View of /trunk/src/chrome/browser/google/google_url_tracker.cc". Retrieved 15 November 2010. Source code comment on line 31
- ^ "Google Chrome, Chromium, and Google". Retrieved 28 January 2010. See Which Google Domain
- ^ See discussion at http://blog.chromium.org/2008/09/dns-prefetching-or-pre-resolving.html
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