aashiks'in

I have been using Chromium web browser on my Arch Linux, on which Google Chrome is based. It was a pleasent experience. It loads fast, hogs less memory and loads tabs very fast. On the whole, I liked it so much that I use it for most of my browsing except for online banking. I do miss the extensions , but the speed and responsivness makes up for it.

Since it was a wee bit older ( it didnt have the extensions feature ), I thought I would update it via Arch User Repository. I had forgotten the exact name of the package so I did a search for Chromium and the following entry popped up on my screen.

“aur/iron 4.0.227-1 (125)
A web browser based on chromium without Google’s tracking ‘features’”

It was then that I realized that even chromium has phone back home features built into it. But it was then that another facet of FOSS world showed itself . SRWare took the source code, removed those tracking features and added features ( like ad blocking and and a later version of webkit ). I uninstalled Chromium right away and replaced it with Iron. I must say that its sweeter than Chromium. I think people should give it a try.

Tags: Chrome, Chromium, FOSS

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