![]() With over a decade of writing experience in the field of technology, Chris has written for a variety of publications including The New York Times, Reader's Digest, IDG's PCWorld, Digital Trends, and MakeUseOf. Chris has personally written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times-and that's just here at How-To Geek. The same isn't true for these Chromium alternatives.Ĭhris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. If Google does something bad or makes a big mistake in Chrome, everyone will hear about it. Google won't steal your credit card number. And if a browser developer isn't acting in good faith, you're in an even worse position: they could snoop on your web browsing and abuse its access to your computer.Įven if you don't trust Google, Google is a large company with a lot of eyes on it. Furthermore, you're trusting a small company or group of developers to make changes to your browser, which can introduce problems-intentional or not.Ĭomodo's security problems and SRWare's update delays are a few examples of the problems that can occur, even when a browser developer is acting in good faith. Part of that means getting security updates very quickly when they're released, and smaller Chromium-based browsers don't always do that. You spend almost all of your internet-connected time in a browser, so it needs to be secure. ![]() Here's the issue: Browsers are very important programs. But we're skeptical of them, and you should be too. ![]() Unlike the Google which displays an error page when the server is not there, the SRWare Iron never has this option.There are other Chromium-based browsers out there. Another feature which is not present in the SRWare Iron is the search access which is available for the Google users when Google is the default page. One is the RLZ identifies, which is ecoded string which are sent concentrated along with the queries. When compared to the Goolge Chrome, the SRWare Iron does lack some basic features. ![]() Somewhat in the year 2015, the SRWare Iron developer and programmers released that after years of research, this tool never had the source code and they then started to release the required source code for the given browser. Right from the last version 6, the SRWare Iron has been an entirely closed and easy to use open source tool.Īs per the report published by Lifehacker in the October 2014, the SRWare Iron was initially termed as an open source tool however, they never released the sources for ages and the browser never gave or provided one with any amount of features for tightening the privacy feature present in the Chrome browser. Only recently when the version 6 was released on the mid of 2015, because most of the links issued by them about the source code was posted in the RapidShare and the uploader immediately blocked it. But still the tool does provide some additional functionality and features which makes it stand out from Google Chrome like the built-in blocking of adwares.įor a long time SRWare Iron has been defining itself as ‘Open Source and Iron is Free’, but this was not so. However, the SRWare Iron does not give any extra or more functionality related privacy when compared to the web browser Google even after suitable number of changes are made to the latter. The major usage of this tool is to remove the various usage tracking and even other kind of privacy related functionalities which Google Chrome has got. It is an implementation of the Chromium by the Germany firm SRWare. ![]() The SRWare Iron is an interactive and easy to use freeware web browser. ![]()
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