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SRWare Iron

SRWare Iron
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Iron 14.0.850.0 on Puppy Linux 5.2.8 Lucid Puppy showing the new tab page.
Developer(s)SRWare
Initial releaseSeptember 18, 2008; 4 years ago (2008-09-18)[1]
Stable release24.0.1350.0 (Windows) / January 22, 2013; 2 months ago (2013-01-22)[2]
Development statusActive
Operating systemLinux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
EngineWebKit
Size25.2 MB (Iron 23.0.1300.0 for Windows)
TypeWeb browser
LicenseBSD license
WebsiteOfficial website

SRWare Iron, or simply Iron, is a free and open-source web browser implementation of the Chromium source code by SRWare of Germany,[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 after proper settings are altered in the latter, 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][5]

Contents

Development history

Iron was first released as a beta version on 18 September 2008,[1] 16 days after Google Chrome's initial release.

On 26 May 2009 a Preview-Release (Pre-Alpha) of Iron came out for Linux.[6] And on 7 January 2010 a beta version for Mac OS was released.[7]

More recent versions of Iron have been released since then, which has gained the features of the underlying Chromium codebase, including Google Chrome theme support, a user agent switcher, an extension system, integrated Adblocker and improved Linux support.[1]

If a user has Chromium installed, only Iron will run when attempting to access Chromium. Iron also automatically imports all data (i.e. Bookmarks, History, etc.) from Chromium when installed.[citation needed]

Differences from Chrome

See also: Google Chrome usage tracking

The following Google Chrome features are not present in Iron:[8][9]

  • RLZ identifier, an encoded string sent together with all queries to Google[10] 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 potentially be used by spammers.[12]
  • Automatic address bar search suggestions.
  • Bug tracking system, sends information about crashes or errors.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Iron news page
  2. ^ a b New Iron-Version
  3. ^ a b SRWare (undated). "SRWare Iron: The Browser of the future - Overview". Retrieved 18 July 2010. 
  4. ^ Kai Schmerer (10 August 2010). "Microsoft aktualisiert Browser-Auswahlbox". ZDnet. Retrieved 10 September 2010. (German)
  5. ^ BrowserChoice.eu (undated). "Choose Your Browser". Retrieved 29 April 2012. 
  6. ^ "Iron Pre-Alpha for Linux Download". Retrieved 29 July 2011. 
  7. ^ "New Iron-Version: 4.0.275 Beta for MacOS". Retrieved 29 July 2011. 
  8. ^ Whats the difference between Iron and Chrome?
  9. ^ "Privacy, unique IDs, and RLZ - Google Chrome". 
  10. ^ a b "Google Chrome, Chromium, and Google". Retrieved 28 January 2010.  See Which Google Domain
  11. ^ "View of /trunk/src/chrome/browser/google/goog le_url_tracker.cc". Retrieved 15 November 2010.  Source code comment on line 31
  12. ^ See discussion at http://blog.chromium.org/2008/09/dns- prefetching-or-pre-resolving.html

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