Srware iron code#

As of December 2014 's website is offline, as the court order requiring Microsoft to post alternative browsers expired. On 11 August 2010, Microsoft updated the website in order to include Iron as one of the possible choices.

Srware iron code#

In 2015, the developer of SRWare Iron, after years of not releasing the source code of their browser anymore, started again to release what they claim is the source code for the browser, although not stating on their page what version the source code is from.

According to lifehacker, as of October 2014 SRWare Iron was 'supposedly open source but haven't released their source for years and the browser doesn't really offer much you can't get by tightening down Chrome's own privacy features on your own'. SRWare Iron 'is entirely closed source and has been since at least version 6'. Īlthough SRWare has been claiming ' Iron is free and OpenSource', this wasn't true from at least version 6 on until mid 2015, as the links given by them for the source code were hosted in RapidShare and blocked by the uploader. While Iron does not provide extra privacy compared to Chromium after proper settings are altered in the latter, it does implement some additional features that distinguish it from Google Chrome, such as built-in ad blocking. It primarily aims to eliminate usage tracking and other privacy-compromising functionality that the Google Chrome browser includes. SRWare Iron is a freeware web browser, and an implementation of Chromium by SRWare of Germany.

Formerly proprietary freeware using open source code from Chromium project Debian, Red Hat Linux and their derivativesĪllegedly open source since mid 2015.