Google chrome vs SRWare Iron
Thursday, August 12, 2010
SRWare Iron is a browser based on free and open source code chromium, minus the privacy issues of google chrome.SRWare Iron is a clone of google chrome and uses the latest version of Apple’s WebKit (525.19), like Safari browser.
Whats the difference beetwen Iron and Chrome?
Privacy:
Comparism of Iron and Chrome at privacy:
Problem | Chrome | Iron | |||||
Client-ID | Chrome creates a unique ID through which a user can be theoretically identified. | does not exist in Iron | |||||
Timestamp | Chrome remembers up to the second exactly when the software was installed. | does not exist in Iron | |||||
Suggest | Depending on the configuration, each time you put something in the address line,this information is sent to Google to provide suggestions. | does not exist in Iron | |||||
Alternate Error Pages | Depending on the configuration, if you have typed a false address in the adress bar, this is sent to Google and you get an error message from Google's servers. | does not exist in Iron | |||||
Error Reporting | Depending on the configuration, details about crashes or failures are sent Google's servers. | does not exist in Iron | |||||
RLZ-Tracking | This Chrome-function transmits information in encoded form to Google, for example, when and where Chrome has been downloaded. | does not exist in Iron | |||||
Google Updater | Chrome installs a updater, which loads at every Windows in background. | does not exist in Iron | |||||
URL-Tracker | Calls depending on the configuration five seconds after launch the Google homepage opens in background | does not exist in Iron |
Other important differences:
Problem | Chrome | Iron | |||||
Adblocker | Chrome doesn't have an built-in adblocker | Iron has an easy to use and built-in adblocker which can be configured by a single file | |||||
User-Agent | The User-Agent in Chrome is only be changeable with parameters over a link or command, which isn't really ideal for permanent usage. | The User-Agent in Iron can be flexiblel and permanently changed by UA.ini. |
Interestingly SRWare Iron consumed less memory than Google chrome and definitely seemed to be faster than it !!! Has this to do with any of the differences mentioned above or the usage of latest version of Apple’s WebKit?!!! However SRWare Iron may throw the same issues like in google Chrome, namely the Chrome 0xc0000005 error and Chrome winhttp.dll crash. These could be resolved in the same manner as outlined in those articles.
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