As a rule of thumb, a portable version of a program can exist on the same system as a regularly installed version - you just can't run them concurrently.Īn article last week at Make Tech Easier, Iron Browser: A Secure Alternative to Google Chrome, pointed up yet another advantage of Iron compared to Chrome - ad blocking. If you already have Chrome installed, you shouldn't need to remove it to use the portable version of Iron. To run it, doubleclick on IronPortable.exe in the root of the unpacked folder. Then, unpack it into any folder, the total size will be about 30MB.
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To install the portable version of Iron, you first download a 14MB zip file. Note that the version available at is old. The latest stable version, from May 17, 2009, can be downloaded here. From the release history it appears that development is fairly active.
It is currently available only for Windows, but a version for Linux and OS X is under development. Like Chrome, Iron is free and open source. In addition, installing Iron (it's available both in a normally installed version as well as a portable version) does not install Google Updater, a program that seems to run constantly in the background. Iron protects your privacy in seven ways that Chrome that does not (see their Chrome vs. The big thing that SRWare stresses is privacy. They call their version Iron and it offers a host of advantages over Google's version. It turns out that a German software company, SRWare, does. They don't, however, offer a portable version of Google's Chrome web browser.
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