[sarcastic_bastard]

Thanks for that info, Dragynn, and thanks for trying. My friend that has been using iron-linux has Fedora as his distro. That may be the difference.

No problem, I really like Iron too, all the speed of Chromium/Chrome, and no phoning-home to google. I did some Peacekeeper tests running Iron 5 on another distro, it scored almost 3 times higher than Firefox, and was giving me close to 4-core cpu speeds from a 5 year old dual core chip. I guess the stuff they strip out must help it by lowering the amount of extra data processing/sending etc. because it was a little quicker across the board than Chrome/Chromium too.

I look forward to trying the newest version this year hopefully

Chromium doesn't phone home to google, that's only Chrome (as such). Just FYI.

[username]

What I don't get, is why in the hell the main browser developers feel the need to incorporate code that identifies users, or to "phone home" anything? I understand capitalistic target marketing, but it seems personally invasive to me, as I'm sure it does to many, many, others. If people want something, they WILL seek it without any damn spying techniques. This sort of thing has been going on a very, very, long time, but the corporate entities that use these techniques just don't seem to get it, that people have a right to privacy, and don't need, OR want, unnecessary incursions into their online activity. I am frankly often surprised by the fact that so many people are blissfully ignorant of how often personal information about them is exposed, or shared by others who have NO legitimate business, or other reason to do so. I don't have such a laissez-faire attitude about it, and am concerned that so many others seem unconcerned about it. It is one of the main tenants of our free society that this right be protected. I've got nothing to hide, but that's not the point. If people don't stand up for their rights, they WILL lose them, bit by little bit, and if that happens, then I guess it would be a galling, but deserved, consequence.

[sarcastic_bastard]

What I don't get, is why in the hell the main browser developers feel the need to incorporate code that identifies users, or to "phone home" anything? I understand capitalistic target marketing, but it seems personally invasive to me, as I'm sure it does to many, many, others. If people want something, they WILL seek it without any damn spying techniques. This sort of thing has been going on a very, very, long time, but the corporate entities that use these techniques just don't seem to get it, that people have a right to privacy, and don't need, OR want, unnecessary incursions into their online activity. I am frankly often surprised by the fact that so many people are blissfully ignorant of how often personal information about them is exposed, or shared by others who have NO legitimate business, or other reason to do so. I don't have such a laissez-faire attitude about it, and am concerned that so many others seem unconcerned about it. It is one of the main tenants of our free society that this right be protected. I've got nothing to hide, but that's not the point. If people don't stand up for their rights, they WILL lose them, bit by little bit, and if that happens, then I guess it would be a galling, but deserved, consequence.

Everything of google's reports on your activities in some fashion. The "payment" for using their services/stuff is your info. They use this to make even more money. They don't do it out of the kindness of their hearts. All businesses working on any of this stuff have their reasons for doing so.

[username]

I'm not sure I understand your point, but like I said before, "If people want something, they WILL seek it without any damn spying techniques." so, there's no legit reason for them to collect information on any of us. I agree there is no kindness in their hearts, only profit motive. It serves no useful purpose other than to maximize their profits at the expense of personal liberties, or however you want to express it. Such is life, but one does not have to approve of it, as reason for their actions. I'm not suggesting that you approve of such, of course. Just my pigheaded opinion. Tired--going to bed

[Dragynn]

Thanks for that info, Dragynn, and thanks for trying. My friend that has been using iron-linux has Fedora as his distro. That may be the difference.

No problem, I really like Iron too, all the speed of Chromium/Chrome, and no phoning-home to google. I did some Peacekeeper tests running Iron 5 on another distro, it scored almost 3 times higher than Firefox, and was giving me close to 4-core cpu speeds from a 5 year old dual core chip. I guess the stuff they strip out must help it by lowering the amount of extra data processing/sending etc. because it was a little quicker across the board than Chrome/Chromium too.

I look forward to trying the newest version this year hopefully

Chromium doesn't phone home to google, that's only Chrome (as such). Just FYI.

Well that's good to know, I hadn't really dug into Chromium and monitored it, but I have been using it for a couple of months now, and really enjoy it's speed and features, we watch a lot of streaming video in the evenings and it performs flawlessly.

On the FYI end of things, I want to report that I started using a beta version of Flash about a month ago I guess when they first put it out (it's still not the "official" version AFAIK) with some new experimental features to help render high-def video, and man does it ever work like a charm on my machines here, I can actually watch stuff in 720 and sometimes 1080p now, where as before even 480 was a stretch at times.

[radicallymoslem]

It's better than a stupid copy cat Flock Browser

[lightning slinger]

The repos now have iron 10.0.650.0 available! OK, there is 10.0.650.1 version in circulation but at least it's a major step up from the version that was in the repos!!