![]() ![]() Ironportable.png (30.86 KiB) Viewed 1062 timesįINALLY!!! I was beginning to think the SRWare team had forgotten about us again here in Linux-land. I'm sorry if this seems like a stupid question but I am genuinely confused as to whether I should be able to download a 64 bit v or not. 0 (which is the one I've just downloaded from your link) or v which is the one mentioned in the title of the thread. I am pretty sure I'm using the 64 bit version of iron (please see attached image).Ĭan you tell me if the most up to date 64 bit version of iron is v. I then wondered if I'd downloaded the 32 bit version by mistake but I did not think it would have worked in the 64 bit easyOS v2.9 in which I am using it with to make this post. 0 and not v as the the title of the thread suggests. I downloaded the 64 bit version from your link but when I opened it and checked the version it reported as v. In this case the issue is with the 64 bit version of Iron which I was updating. Usually I am looking for 32 bit versions but as you know I've bee trying to move away from my favourite 32 bit pups because of the 32 bit browser issues. ![]() I think I warned you a while back this was happening in fact, I'm sure I did. ![]() The final 32-bit version is now 'pinned' as a 'legacy' build on their website. SRWare quit building the 32-bit browser after v89. Google programmer Evan Martin, who contributes to the Chromium project, has his own odd anecdote about Iron, and he points out that the privacy features in Iron are easily emulated by changing a few settings within Chrome (or Chromium) itself.Īpart from its privacy features, SRWare's Iron has some odd and gratuitous changes, such as the replacement of the Chrome app store with SRWare's own.Quite simple, Ken. The most recent version as of this writing was version 16 (dated December 21, 2011). The master builds of Iron itself seem to be kept reasonably current, though. One way to get around the absence of auto-update is to use the PortableApps version of Iron, which can be updated automatically through the PortableApps launcher (although it doesn't always provide you with the most up-to-date edition of Iron). You're allowed to manually access and browse the Chrome Web Store and install plug-ins directly from there, but it hardly seems necessary to send people somewhere else by default. If you open the extensions page in Iron and click on the "browse the gallery" link, you're taken to, a compilation of Chrome plug-ins collected by SRware, rather than Google's own Chrome extensions gallery. Some of the changes seem wholly gratuitous. You are, however, allowed to use Iron with the Google Sync feature so that bookmarks, passwords, and preferences can be synced between copies of Iron. You have to manually install newer versions of the program, as with Chromium. For instance, Iron does not check for updates automatically, as its creators consider the presence of the updater to be another privacy issue. ![]() Iron's emphasis on removing features that allegedly endanger privacy comes at the cost of some functionality. These things - the logging of input in the omnibox, for instance - aren't just disabled by default, but disabled completely they cannot be reactivated. SRWare Iron One of the more widely discussed variants of Chrome is SRWare's Iron, which, according to its creators, removes all the features that raised hackles with privacy advocates. ![]()
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