[Update] Feb 2nd, 2011
It seems Iron is no serious project and only follows the intention to allure people visiting the SRWare Iron website in order to make money from Google’s adsense.
More information to be found here:
http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.html
What it is
The “Iron” browser is based on the “Google Chromium” source code, but “Iron” does not send any user specific data to Google anymore and it does not contain a unique user ID. Iron is a product of “SRWare” – a german software company. In Iron the following Google Chrome features have been deactivated:
- no alternative error messages, when having entered a wrong URL
- no sending of collected data to Google, if Iron has crashed
- no unwanted Google updater
Iron is available for Microsoft Windows only. Download Iron here (german page!). Installing in CrossOver Mac sadly does not work out of the box…
[Update] Sep 26th, 2008 The language Thing
Although our screenshot shows Iron with german interface, it turns to english, when it’s gotten installed to an english Windows version.
[Update] Sep 27th, 2008 The Next Browser Wars (internal link)
You may find some background information about the Browser Wars in one of our recent articles here.
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Personally I’m still sticking with Firefox, mainly because of all it’s addons. I like what I’ve seen of Google Chrome, and will probably give it another go once it is out of beta (All Google software comes out of beta eventually, doesn’t it? :P)
We TRUST Google implicity.
Google has been very good to us, and very goodfor us.
I intent to install the new Google Chrome Browser, and try it.
I will not lose any sleep at all.
I look at Google as my friend, certainly not my enemy.
I’ve really loved Google upto this spyware hysteria.
Knowledge is Power.
And power always corrupts. Sooner rather then later.
I’m choosing between Opera Firefox Iron, they all have different strenghts.
I’ve also made bat files for starting each browser, that reset my cookie files.
My data is, well, mine.
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SRWare Iron Can’t Be Trusted – At Least Not Yet!
They’ve developed a so called privacy oriented browser that played on the paranoia of the general public for ad revenue as their prerogative all along.
Did you know what the developer was quoted as saying? Google is Evil and the German people don’t like Google, well cool I’m not bothered with that, that’s all cool, I don’t personally trust Google either.
Then what else do they now do, run Google Adsense on their site and support running Google banners on their startpage site also.
Look, you call Google evil then you are seen supporting Google, what is that telling us? I’ll tell you, one big mixed bag of messages that should make you think real hard.
So can this developer really be trusted and should we really support SRWare Iron?
Well one thing is certain, until this developer starts flying right and shows us some of these true colors of mistrust towards Google, then it’s looking really fishy and this is all the real truth around here about this SRWARE Iron! :(
Go research it and see for yourself!
http://chromium.hybridsource.org/the-iron-scam
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