SRWare Iron 15.0.900.0

I used the Iron portable but when I upgraded it I lost my customisations/profile. How do you save them?

 

It's a possibility, I'm not totally sold on that though.

There's that, although many see that as a plus rather than a minus.

 

I guess if you don't want Flash/ PDFs it can be.

I just feel like IronWare had its time but it basically serves no purpose anymore.

 

Yeah, that's probably what it is. It's just that you can open Iron in either mode. Technically you can have two icons on your desktop; one is the +GPU. It's probably the same with Chromium.

Yes, I've heard of C/C++. Thanks for the explanation though. Do you mean this Native Client?

 

It still has a good following. I prefer it to Chrome & it still seems faster. It has topped speed charts before now. Although I can see no reason why it would be any faster than Chrome or Chromium.

 

Before upgrading, I move my Profile folder to another directory (e.g., from F:\Programs\IronPortable to F:\1). After upgrading, I delete the Profile folder that was created in the IronPortable directory and replace it with the previously moved Profile folder. Seems to work quite well and takes just a few seconds.

 

All I know is IronPortable seems to pick up my current (installed) versions of Flash and Java. It also picks up my PDF-XChange Viewer plugin.

 

Yes, that Native Client.

Me either.

 

OK, thanks. I tried something like that but I must have done something wrong & it failed. Did you have the UAC disabled when you saved your Profile Folder?

 

It must be all in my imagination.

 

Using XP at the moment on my main machines, so.....

Regardless, I recall (at least once) that it didn't work the first time. After a second restart, it picked up the correct profile, though.

 

OK, thanks for the info. I'm going to give it another go I think.

 

The best answers in regards to your question that I was able to find are:


About the Portable Version:

About the Installer Version:

EDIT: emphasis


HKEY1952

 

For three tabs it uses 6 instances of iron.exe and about 250MB of memory.
Seems a lot.

 

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Why should anyone care about any of these? An updater service? A one time statistical response? A few features that provide a service that can be disabled by the user?

I just don't see what it has to offer other than getting people to think there are privacy issues where there aren't.

 

The Installation ID Is An Permanient Fixed Identifier

Yes the client has the option to disable the Updater Service, however, Other Data sent to Google is attached to that
Installation ID such as the URL Tracker that is Constantly Running, thus building an profile, aggregate or otherwise.


HKEY1952

 

Except you can disable all of that in Chrome under the Under the Hood options.

The only thing you can't disable is a one time message to google indicating that another person has installed Chrome. Everything else can be disabled. I have no clue why anyone would care about any of these things, but if they do you can disable them.

 

Should you exist any knowledge in development you have no argument other than to contradict yourself, and I am not
going to argue with you because I know that I am right.

Should you be exempt from this knowledge then I understand that you do not understand.


HKEY1952

 

I thought it was NaCl like how they have pepper.

BTW, don't argue over belief

 

Except this "URL Tracker" is not what you think it is.

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.html

Bolded an especially important part.

 

LBasically how I feel. They mention a lot of things that aren't actually issues and then call them issues. Anything that could maybe be considered an issue if you're paranoid can be disabled within Chrome.

I just don't see iron as offering anything at this point. At one point there was speculation about Chrome's privacy (mostly baseless) and I can understand them making it then... but now? They have nothing to offer.

EDIT: lol everyone should read that

<Iron> because a fork will bring a lot of publicity to my person and
my homepage
<Iron> that means: a lot of money too

 

The concern here is not the code or user options to enable or disable this and that. The real concern is Server Logs.
The very first time the computer connects to the Server an Unique Cookie ID is assigned to that particular computer.
The computers IP Address, Browser, Operating System, Date and Time, are also logged and appended to the Cookie ID.

The user of the computer can delete the Cookies stored on the computer all they want. The user of the computer can
block all the Cookies they want. The user of the computer can even eat the Cookies that are stored on the computer.
But the very next time that particular computer connects to That Server, the Unique Cookie ID that was assigned to
that particular computer on first visit to That Server will be re-assigned to That particular computer.

There is no need to proceed any further than this.


HKEY1952

 

Source needed.

Here's a list of things google tracks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Usage_tracking

There's information showing that you're mistaken.

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So, no, it doesn't store your IP and everything you thought it stored. It stores nothing related to personal info. It is used once.

 

And I mean... the SRIronWare dev basically admits it's a scam. He says he's only after money and the devs say "Everything should be able to be disabled" and he goes "Yeah but I can make money with a fork" so... lol if you believe him.

I mean... you're trusting the closed source 3rd party dev who says he's in it to scam users over the open source community.

 

SOURCE = Higher Education

You are ranting on about Google displaying evidence you do not understand Server Technology.

However, you may have the last word.

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