SRWare Iron, or simply Iron, is a free and open-source web browser implementation of Chromium which primarily aims to eliminate usage tracking and other privacy-compromising functionality that the Google Chrome browser includes.While Iron does not provide extra privacy compared to Chromium, it does disable some configurable Chromium features that could share information with third parties.
Differences from Chrome
The following Google Chrome features are removed or disabled on Iron by hardcoding three configuration macros in the Chromium source tree:
- RLZ identifier, an encoded string sent together with all queries to Google or once every 24 hours.
- Does not access Google search on startup for users with Google as default search
- A unique ID ("clientID") for identifying the user in logs.
- A timestamp of when the browser was installed.
- Google-hosted error pages when a server is not present
- Google Updater automatic installation.
- DNS pre-fetching, because it could perhaps be used by spammers.
- Automatic address bar search suggestions.
- Bug tracking system, sends information about crashes or errors.
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