SRWare Iron 15.0.900.0

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  1. HKEY1952

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    I second that, lately while visiting Wilders Security Forums and reading through ALL the Threads and Posts the sessions
    have the Myst of an Pac Man Game.

    The Iron Browser appears to me to be the most basic and safe Browser available.
    I was considering Google Chrome Browser, but no, Iron appears to be stripped down to an basic simple Browser, and for
    everyday browsing of the www, so far it seems the most logical way to go.


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  2. guest

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    There is something even more basic than Iron: http://www.qtweb.net/

    It's probably safer too, but I don't know for sure. I only use QtWeb when I have resource-intensive games open and need to see something on the web urgently.
     
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    Thanks for the link and information guest, I will check it out.


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    Well, modifying my assertion that I wouldn't answer this thread again, not reply to the disingenuously arguing Iron is a scam brigade anyway, but I have always stated (on these forums & others) that I honestly believed that Iron was noticably faster than Chrome. The (SRWare) Iron portable is much quicker on our laptops at work than the (Portable Apps) Chrome portable, which seems to really take its time sometimes, or freezes (so much so that I don't use Chrome portable any more). Only Portable Apps' Firefox seems to have more or less the same performance.

    To be honest, Iron has often topped speed charts ahead of Chrome, & sometimes ahead of everything. I think that this is the real reason behind a lot of the accusations against Iron.

    I have no explanation why Iron appears to run quickly &, in fact, actually quicker than Chrome. Like yourself, I just discovered this by using both browsers. I have been using Iron, on & off, for well over two years, I've been telling Vasa1 about my observations of Iron's speed over Chrome's for ages on here.

    I really don't have any explanation for this 'Iron' speed.
     
  5. Hungry Man

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    Keep in mind that when you run something from a USB you'll have significantly lower access times compared to something run from a hard drive.

    It sounds like something to do with the cache, which will (of course) act the same exact way Chromium's does. Perhaps that it's used more or less compared to the other browser.

    I can't see anything on their site that refers to anything that could possibly effect speed.

    I'm not saying that you aren't having a better experience with it but there's got to be a reason and I'd bet on cache, which is variable to usage.
     
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    Is it possible that Iron is faster than Chrome because Iron is void of all the analytic connections back to Home?


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    It sounds like it could be a distinct possibility.
     
  8. Hungry Man

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    Considering that those are used to speed Chrome up, no.

    If you want to test you can simply disable them in Chrome and try it out for yourself (because, again, that's all Iron is.)

    I mean, Iron is closed source but from what they say it's just removal of the options to remove features and putting those features on default off.
     
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    That crossed my mind as well. It's a fair bet. Although I believe that the anti-Phishing & DNS pre-fetching are switched off in default in Iron. That may be a factor.
     
  10. Hungry Man

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    https://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=114836&hl=en-US

    More on Chrome privacy.

    Here's what Iron does:
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    Disables those boxes and removes the option to turn them back on.

    There's also a built in adblocker but there's no details on how it works. Chances are they don't implement their own API but either way you can get adblocking just fine in Chrome.
     
  11. Hungry Man

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    @Daveski:
    DNS prefetching is probably on and is a feature to speed up browsing.

    I think Phishing and Malware protection must be off because it sends a partial of your URL (hash) to Google to match.
     
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    SRWare Iron, or simply Iron, is a free and open-source web browser implementation of the Chromium source code[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. ~ Wikipedia
     
  13. Hungry Man

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    Ah, good to know. In that case it's almost definitely not a new API.
     
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    It uses Fanboy's List

    It isn't as good as Iron's internal adblocker, even with ABP.
     
  15. Hungry Man

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    Agh ,well now I have to go download and test it.

    I'll update in a minute.

    edit: And it doesn't matter what list it's using. It matters how it's using it.
     
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    Even when I have enabled the phishing protection I have not noticed any changes in performance. I don't know about the malware protection.

    It's a shame Iron wasn't quite as stable as Chrome. It can suffer from the odd small bug.
     
  17. Hungry Man

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    Ugh no Flash means I can't test Flash ads... now I have to install it. grr.
     
  18. Hungry Man

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    Hulu ads aren't blocked on iron. They are on Chrome.

    Am I missing something?
     
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    I'm guessing there's something missing all right. ;)
     
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    In fact no ads are blocked, so I'm just assuming that the portable version must not support adblocking?
     
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    I just DDG'd 'Hulu'. I don't live in the US, Iron is German & Fanboy is a Kiwi (I think), so there you go. File under 'not applicable'.
     
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    OK. Did you turn off the UAC before you saved the file to adblock.ini? o_O

    You can turn it (UAC) back on after you have saved Fanboy's list in the adblock file.
     
  23. Hungry Man

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    I am in fact getting ads even on the installed version.

    How/ Where do I enable the build in adblocker?
     
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    What? :argh:

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  25. Hungry Man

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    EDIT:

    I got adblocking working. No, it doesn't work on in-plugin ads as I suspected it wouldn't.
     
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