Iron is nothing more than a rip off with some optionals Features disabled by removing the buttons from the Menu (Too bad that the Page where a Chromium Dev made a deep look into Irons sources is down). It's original purpose is to get Money from ads on the page. As additional problem, the source is not really available (Rapidshare, multiparts). Also questions about giving out the Source code are not answered. So this Project is in my Opinion nothing more than a slacky hack job where you change 3 LOC to sell this as "privacy" Browser. The "open source" tag is simply there because most open source users will never notice when the code is not available.
The Privacy features are nothing much. The installation ID, which is deleted after installation is simply for measuring the number of Chromium installations. Which is not unusual Suggests: You can disable them but that is one of the things that made Chrome so good, because the omnibus behaves like you type it on google.com. RLZ-Tracking: A simple 10liner in the Source that determines where you are (on a Country base) to deliver the correct search engine (google.de,….) When you don't use Google as search this does nothing. Crash Reporting: Every Software should have it. It helps the Dev to get informations if the Software is dying on the field. But, it can also be turned off Updater: Chrome doesn't have this on Linux, since it configures a Repo after installation. Chromium is in the Ubuntu Repos and is Updated by them. On 15.05.2013, at 06:35, [email protected] wrote: > Surely there must be at least some code from one that would be useful to the > other? That's what I was thinking originally.
