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Last Update: Wed, 09/30/2009 - 01:01 — searchlight
I was perusing the articles on this site about Personal Firewalls and HIPS when I came across someone mentioning that they use the Iron Browser. Curious, I Googled the name and found this information about an open sourced Google Chrome browser clone that does not transmit statistics about your browsing habits and maintains your privacy, and is just as fast. Wow!
Check it out at this link: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
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I've been using SRWare Iron for months in addition to Firefox. It is faster and does not store history if you tell it not to. I like it and use it daily. I chose it over Google Chrome because of Chrome's collecting history.
How do you tell it to empty the cache on exit and clear history on exit?
I notice all reviews say Iron and Chrome are light and fast and maybe they are pretty fast but there isn't anything else favorable about the Chrome based browsers.
Iron or Chrome are 40 meg installed, that is larger than a plain install of Firefox (~ 28 meg) and HUGE compared to Opera 10 which is about 8 to 12 meg installed, so if the program size is considered, Iron and Chrome are seriously lacking features.
Iron and Chrome do appear to load web pages a little faster than Firefox and a little slower than Opera 10.
Iron and Chrome also appear to keep a perpetual history which you have to delete yourself one day at a time, no option to have it empty cache etc on exit, no option to have it restricted to a certain number of days.
Maybe I am mistaken about some of what I said, but the negatives were sufficient to cause me to remove Iron within 20 minutes of installing it.
I never liked IE after I discovered alternatives. I used Firefox and Avant Browser ( an IE shell) for quite a while. Then I tried Chrome when it came out and have never looked back. I like it so much I never even bothered to install Firefox on my new laptop. To me, the most important thing a browser can do is render web pages and then get out of the way. I don't want a bunch of toolbars and widgets and add-ons and fluff. Chrome (and Iron) just seem to work better to me. The interface is super clean and unobtrusive. The Omnibar and the way the autosuggest works is simply superior. I have just found out about Iron and have started using it some. It feels just like Chrome which is good. I am not a member of the tin foil hat society but a little extra privacy can't hurt I guess.
they haven't kept up with Chrome's development cycle. I gave up on this weak thing months ago.
Chromeplus is probably a better Chrome alternative
I just downlaoded and installed this only to find every site I visit doesn't show up in the browser window..nothing just a blank white page! All the sites visited seem to be loading, judging by the tabs but nothing actually appears in the browser window.
Guess I will be sticking with Firefox for now.
Is it being blocked by your firewall settings, what are your log entries showing?
I use Opera and Iron as my two main browsers. I haven't had a single problem with Iron and recommend it.
I have tried Iron like months ago and ditched it from my system. It had a lot more bugs than Chrome. E.g. on several internet forums the back button refuses to work with Iron.
does SRWare Iron have plugins like flash and java yet?
It is mentioned in the best free browser category but unfortunately comments have been shut down on that page.
Iron is good, it's one of the fastest, but the interface is a bit minimalistic. I used it in addition to Firefox until Opera 10 came out. I think Opera 10 is a little bit faster than Iron, and is pretty full featured and doesn't seem to use any more resources than Iron or Chrome. Nevertheless, Firefox is still my default.
this is a good browser,,very fast,,besides some bugs yet..
one thing:if somebody from sware-iron is around here,,i register for their forum..add a comment in a topic...then open a new topic,but it doesn't show in the forum.
SRWare Iron is already mentioned in our Best Free Web Browser category here:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-web-browser.htm
Why does your link refer to it as SWR Iron? I used it for a while but got tired of the incremental updates of once every 3-4 months. That just meant any bugs were going to be around a while before being fixed. Plus their help forums were not all that great.
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