SRWare Iron81.0.4200.0

People, please DON'T trust this browser! Iron is a scam! A scam by some greedy German who just regularly takes a Chromium source package, claims to remove 'spying' funcions, which is nothing more than changing a few settings (that you can change yourself - by going to ... the settings page) - and on top of that, he is apparently putting his own ad framework into it. Of course the versions are never up to date, so good luck with mainting browser security. If you search around a bit you will find enough links to articles and forums which elaborate on the nature of this scam, this source for example is pretty revealing: http://www.insanitybit.com/2012/06/23/srware-iron-browser-a-real-private-alternative-to-chrome-21/ Seems like the only reason Iron exists is to lure people on to his page so he can cash in several Google Ads and Analytics Bonuses. I invite you to give me hybris for this, flame away people. Or maybe save the time and read up for a minute on what disgusting piece of dodgy software you are raving about.

Excellent! I love Chrome, but I uninstalled it recently because I was fed up the obligatory Auto-Update system that comes with it (among other factors). With SRWare Iron I get all the goodness of Chrome, including all my usual extensions, without the annoyances. On my system it appears to be running flawlessly. Thanks for providing this.

To macupdate : Just avoid any misunderstanding can you please modify the minimum sys requirements for this as 10.7 as till now even this newest release Do Not Work under Snow Leopard. Thanks

working fine on Mlion but refuses to launch under 10.6.8

It's still "Chromium.app" with 17.0, even though it shows up in the Finder as "SRWare Iron.app." (Get info on it or do an "ls" and you'll see "Chromium.") Still appears to use default Chromium folders in ~/Library and so forth, so even if you rename it, you're going to have issues if you did want to use both! Honestly, there's no reason to use this over Chromium; the links Popguru posted below are worth reading. While I'm all for more developers contributing to open-source, like Chrome derivatives, this particular one appears to be more of a marketing tool for the developer, providing pretty much nothing over Chromium, other than a different name. (And even that part isn't done right!)

Just a quick comment on the rating: The search list has the overall stars (around 4), while this page uses the present rating for v15 – amounting to three ratings, one by monkeyjunkey [sic!] clicking the same rating for two versions.

Even though the Finder reports the application name as "SRWare Iron", it's actually called "Chromium.app" on the filesystem by default. You have to rename it if you want to have Chromium and Iron both installed. The fact that that SRWare didn't bother to change the name of the application bundle made me wonder how different Iron actually is from Chromium. Several sources attest that Iron has little or no significant benefit over Chromium. It simply removes some features which can be turned off manually in Chromium. These are a bit old, but likely still relevant: http://chromium.hybridsource.org/the-iron-scam http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.html I think I'll stick with the FreeSMUG Chromium build instead: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36244/chromium

Since this has come up a couple times, you can easily change keyboard shortcuts for any menu item in Iron (or any other app) like so: 1. Open System Preferences 2. Select "Keyboard" pane 3. Select "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab 4. Select "Application Shortcuts" in the left pane 5. Click the "+" button to add a new shortcut 6. Select the app you want to change from the application list, enter the exact name of the menu item (I.e., Select Next Tab), then enter the desired shortcut. That's it!

Latest SRWare Iron Update: New Iron-Version: 13.0.800.0 Stable for MacOS von SRWare » Sa Aug 20, 2011 4:10 pm We released the new Iron 13 for MacOS today, which contains all features and updates known from Chromim 13. The current version is 13.0.800.0. Main improvements since Iron 11: - Better Performance - Instant Pages when enabled - Hardware accelerated 3D CSS - New Safe Browsing protection against downloading malicious files - Over 30 security fixes - Ability to delete Flash cookies from inside Download: http://www.srware.net/downloads/iron-mac.zip (OS X 10.5 or greater / Intel) PS: We plan to publish future iron for mac versions contemporary with the equivalent windows release.

Does 1Password's hack for Chrome/Chromium work on SRWare Iron? Do Chrome's other extensions work on SRWare Iron?

Does anyone know what sort of warning message you get if your mac get infected with a virus while using Iron?? I got a message saying something along those lines last night from something i was searching for using BING search engine i panicked i didn't click on the scan mac message that was in middle of screen as it said something about scanning my pc..so forced quit iron and scanned everything on my mac using up to date ClamX and Sophos home edition nothing was found but i am still on edge about the warning i got i wish i had taken a screen shot of it..all i remember was the URL started with 174. and that my home folder page was open in background with this message box in foreground My apologies if some of this doesn't make sense ( this is the first ever virus message i have seen so am still shaken)..the link i clicked on from bing list was NOT to any porn site it was for cat clubs in area where i live I am gonna try this new update as i like using iron a lot, but i would love to know if anyone else has had similar message about suspect/infected files or virus warnings or something along those lines telling you you have a virus can anyone help/advise please I may try and say same thing on irons forum if i can work out how to.. if anyone wants more info about this i will try my best to answer your questions

Runs fine on Snow Leopard. Has the same great feel of Chrome but with a lot LESS of the usage tracking. What I mean is this: For me, the biggest problem with Chrome is the unique client ID that can be used to tie you personally to specific usage data. Iron removed the ID so even if there's still information being sent to Google, it can't be tied back to you personally. The biggest problem is that it's 2 versions behind at this point. SRWare has already released v7 for other platforms. Still waiting on the Mac release.

"aims to eliminate usage tracking and other privacy compromising functionality that the Google Chrome browser includes." but if you forbid to connect (Little Snitch) to Google you are grounded. What kind of privacy is this?

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