Chrome alternatives

[R3C0N]

SRWare Iron is quite nice because it has an adblock engine built into the renderer without having to use a plugin to do it -- much better since loading the plugin subsystem takes quite a bit of memory and can have a significant performance impact.

You can convert the Fanboy Opera urlfilter.ini to SRWare Iron adblock.ini format via the following script (9th post down on the page, seems that anonymz removes # url target from links):

http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1950#p6720

http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/

IRON is crap.

in the old days of Google Chrome some privacy, security related questions which Iron should fix was true but that was years ago. There is nothing more in Chrome but in Iron are lot of embedded Ads to fill the revenue/incoming money by the iron developers. As a noobee programmer who just installed the compiler to compile the chromium source code it is for a absolute beginner quite easy to put the hands on the chromium source to compile it and make some changes by it.

I have several Emule mod source codes compiled and other stuff from sourceforge.net. I can tell you this what the Iron dev's (if u can tell them even devs) do on changes to the source is for laughing, a 12 years old child can do it. To add tons of embedded Ads and other no needed stuff in Iron - no related to webbrowser - but to earn money from the iron users on Ads stuff is them main focus.

Please read here more about IRON http://www.insanitybit.com/2012/06/23/srware-iron-browser-a-real-private-alternative-to-chrome-21/

[avmad]

Embedded ads? I thought it was only their site which had ads. Yes I've read insanitybit's blog. I've never seen ads but that might be AdMuncher doing its job :lol:

I still can't decide which software to use. Tried many chromium/chrome still not found the perfect one for me.

Dragon crashed, Ones in Russian, ones too late with updates, some are a knightmare with Sandboxie and bookmarks although there probably is a fix but I can't work it out :rolleyes:

Some are nosy info stealing buggers :angry:

Is original chrome usable without giving info to google? Might try Dragon again though.

[rach]

Opera latest version is really nice, look faster than Google Chrome :D

Edited October 4, 2013 by rach

[Fallon]

I was used to Opera 12 with Firefox as 2nd main browser. As of version 23, Firefox has become stable enough to open a 100 sites or more and with the three extensions Speed Dial, Session Manager and Tab Mix Plus, it's very usable.

Chromium based browsers are all in development. So far none is good yet. After uninstalling Google Chrome once, I noticed some remaining activity in Windows Task Manager. A small proggy that had come with Chrome was logging the entire system disc. You probably 'Okay' that once you run setup. Goodbye(!) Chrome. Google accounts, fine, but I have doubts about the cloud. See the latest MS Office 365. It is cloud based and thanks to the generosity of Microsoft its cloud can be accessed for a mere 10 bucks per month. An attractive future.

Putting the cloud issue aside, I will probably like Torch Browser. It's privacy is okay and it has options for media. Torch Browser also has a Bookmarks Manager, which means you can organize bookmarks in folders and subfolders, a good thing. SRWare Iron is the other one with a Bookmarks Manager and features a proper Windows GUI. Opera Developer also looks like that, but has done away with full fletched bookmarks. Its Speed Dial is supposed to replace it, -maybe they make money from some speed dial partners-, anyway, new opera is insufficient for a large number of bookmarks. Opera items 'stash' and 'discovery' (the latter just a bookmark they want users to access) are less than impressive for now. ComodoDragon is good in downloading from dump sites, that's why I use it. It's GUI is not exactly the beauty in the classroom. I will try the others suggested here. Thanks.