SRWare brings Iron's Chromium-based privacy to Linux
It's no secret the Chromium development is proceeding nicely on Linux. It's been easy to install via Launchpad for quite some time, and is very usable in its alpha state. That progress has opened the door for SRWare to bring Iron to Linux as well. The German-based crew first released the privacy-enhanced Iron for Windows back in September of last year.
Iron is built on Chromium 2.0.180.0, and, of course, everything that's been working in Chromium works in Iron as well. That also means that there's plenty of functionality still missing from Iron as well - most notably plugin (like Flash) support and the options screen.
Other than that, Iron works very well. It's speedy, stable, and it doesn't apprise Google of your browsing activities. Personally, I'm more excited about Iron's progress than I am about Google's official release of Chrome.
[by Lee Mathews]