

However, the_simple_computer wrote that Iron removes the Google Native Client, Google's custom navigation and error pages and other similar features. In December 2014, Lifehacker said that Iron offers little that is not available by simply configuring Google Chrome's privacy settings. Increased number of recent page thumbnails shown on the New Tab page.Opt-in blocking of other background communications, such as extension, GPU blacklist, and certificate revocation updates.Opt-in sending of both browser usage statistics and crash information to Google.Automatic address bar search suggestions.DNS pre-fetching, because it could potentially be used by spammers.Google-hosted error pages when a server is not present.Google Search access on startup for users with Google as default search.RLZ identifier, an encoded string sent together with all queries to Google.The following Google Chrome features are not present in Iron: Therefore, the "WebRTC disabled" builds are no longer available. With version, control of WebRTC is taken over by an add-on. Support for Windows XP ended with version 50, but all older versions are still available. More recent versions of Iron have been released since then, which has gained the features of the underlying Chromium codebase, including Google Chrome theme support, a user agent switcher, an extension system, integrated Adblocker and improved Linux support.

On 11 August 2010, Microsoft updated the website in order to include Iron as one of the possible choices. And on 7 January 2010 a beta version for macOS was released. On a Preview-Release ( Pre-Alpha) of Iron came out for Linux. Iron was first released as a beta version on 18 September 2008, 16 days after Google Chrome's initial release. Iron ships with certain Chromium privacy options switched on by default, it provides some additional features that distinguish it from Google Chrome. It primarily aims to eliminate usage tracking and other privacy-compromising functionality that the Google Chrome browser includes. SRWare Iron is a Chromium-based web browser developed by the German company SRWare. Windows 7 and later, OS X 10.9 and later, Linux, Android 4.1 and laterīSD, with some parts under other licences.
