SR Ware Iron vs Chromium

[Noah K]

Does SR Ware Iron have any privacy benefits over Chromium, i know that Iron has removed various things that are in chrome (RLZ-Tracking, etc.) but are those things in Chromium?

[Finnur Thorarinsson]

Well, if you look it up on your favorite search engine you are bound to find a lot of articles about it.

One of those: http://www.insanitybit.com/2012/06/23/srware-iron-browser-a-real-private-alternative-to-chrome-21/

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Noah K <noahte...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does SR Ware Iron have any privacy benefits over Chromium, i know that Iron has removed various things that are in chrome (RLZ-Tracking, etc.) but are those things in Chromium?

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[Phill Di]

Tell me about it. I am going to go on a limb and say no. Chromium is a open source browser build by people seperate to google. I doubt they would benefit from any tracking.

I would stick to Iorn because of its support (support that is not in .tar packages) and community.

[Torne (Richard Coles)]

On 8 April 2014 00:22, Phill Di <dr.minist...@gmail.com> wrote:

Tell me about it. I am going to go on a limb and say no. Chromium is a open source browser build by people seperate to google. I doubt they would benefit from any tracking.

That's not really true; Chromium is an open source project with a variety of contributors, but the majority of contributors are Google employees on the Chrome team, and all the infrastructure is maintained by Google. We try and keep the differences between Chromium and Chrome to a minimum; everything that can be made open source is included in Chromium. The Chrome-specific parts are Google's branding (icons/logos/etc), the closed source plugins like Flash and the PDF viewer, some potentially-patent-affected media codecs, crash/statistics reporting, etc (see https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome)

The only specific thing mentioned by the original poster was RLZ; this is used only in builds of Chrome distributed as bundles with other software, to see if the bundle deal actually resulted in users using Chrome. Chromium doesn't include it, but nor does the "regular" Chrome download from https://www.google.com/chrome, so if that's what you're concerned about you can just download Chrome directly from Google. (also, the RLZ library *is* open source, so if you want to know what it does you can go look in the Chromium repository). More information about this: http://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/in-open-for-rlz.html

In general, pretty much all of the Chrome privacy policy (https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/privacy/) also applies to builds of Chromium unless whoever made the build has specifically removed those features.

I would stick to Iorn because of its support (support that is not in .tar packages) and community.

On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 08:38:06 UTC+11, Noah K wrote:

Does SR Ware Iron have any privacy benefits over Chromium, i know that Iron has removed various things that are in chrome (RLZ-Tracking, etc.) but are those things in Chromium?