SRWare Iron 4.0.275.2 RC

[jalaffa]

<img src="http://nsanedown.com/images/logos/Iron_icon.png" class="logo" alt="SRWare Iron: The Browser of the future" title="SRWare Iron: The Browser of the future" /> SRWare Iron: The browser of the future - SRWare Iron, or simply Iron, is a free and open-source web browser implementation of Chromium which primarily aims to eliminate usage tracking and other privacy compromising functionality that Google's Chromium-based browser, Chrome, includes. Iron includes other notable unique features. In contrast to Chrome, it implements the latest version of the WebKit rendering engine, and includes built-in ad blocking.

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[jofre]

Thanks for this update and a Wonderful New Year !

[silencer]

I much more prefer ChromePlus... But this is also great mod of Chrome. Thnx. ;)

[Atasas]

She's a beauty!

Thanks for the heads up!

[Night Owl]

Wow, thanks for the update! Recently, I've been checking almost daily for an update to the SRWare Iron 4.0.227 Beta. I should have known that jalaffa would find it right away. Thank you!

[silencer]

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/chromium-dev-2008-09-17

[jalaffa]

Some reading to do.

The summarized stuff is here:

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/

[Night Owl]

Interesting. For sure, SRWare Iron doesn't have an updater that loads on every start of Windows to see if there is a newer version of the browser and then to update it automatically without your consent. Google Chrome definitely has this.

[HX1]

...and it polls out every few minutes.. I ripped that out first thing.. I couldn't have my firewall going off every time I start to do something..

[Night Owl]

I just made an interesting discovery. If you install Google Chrome through one of the standalone installers available at nsane.down, then no GoogleUpdate executable or process is installed on your machine. :dance2: However, if you install Google Chrome through the regular online install, GoogleUpdate will get installed.

I just installed Google Chrome (Dev Channel) on my Windows 7 Ultimate x64 machine and the "About Google Chrome" window says:

Google Chrome

4.0.288.1 stable

...

Update server not available (error: 3)

The update server error is because there is no GoogleUpdate file to run.

Proof 1: There is also another benefit in downloading this standalone installer. It doesn't contain the Google Update EXE file.

Proof 2: While offline installer is convenient but it has a downside – this version of browser cannot auto-update for new fixes and feature. For new version, you need to manually download the standalone file again.

Now that I don't have the GoogleUpdate executable running at every Windows startup, I like Google Chrome and SRWare Iron about the same now. Actually, I'm like heath28m and I don't like SRWare Iron's icon. I like Google Chrome's icon and the "Google" to the left of the minimize button.

Hmmm, when I get back to my Windows XP PC, I'm going to uninstall Google Chrome and then re-install it with the standalone installer. :dance2: