Iron Portable 37.0.2000.0 has been released. SRWare Iron is 'The browser of the future' - based on the free Sourcecode "Chromium" - but without some features that privacy advocates object to. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.
Iron is packaged for portable use with permission from SRWare.
Update automatically or install from the portable app store in the PortableApps.com Platform.
Features
Iron is based on the open source Chromium source code that the Google Chrome browser is based on. Iron does not include the unique ids, timestamps, custom error pages and other information present in some Google Chrome packages.
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
Iron Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.
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Iron Portable is available for immediate download from the Iron Portable homepage. Get it today!
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Iron Browser - 64 Bit Version
Hi,
Could you offer 64 Bit version of Iron as well?
Thank You.
Unplanned
If we did, it would be dual 32-bit and 64-bit and about 300MB. At the moment, we have Chrome 64-bit as a test release to see if it's even worth considering if you'd like to try it. The performance gains turn out to be minimal in my own testing.
John, Why are you so
John,
Why are you so concerned with the size of the files?
It's non issue this days.
Moreover, I don't see the reason for Dual.
I'd like the option to chose, and I'd chose 64 Bit.
I guess many more would do so.
Not because of performance, because it is time to leave the past behind.
the world move for 64 bit, Portable Apps should as well.
Short-Sighted
That's a very short-sighted view considering the fact that the majority of users use portable software on machines that are not there own a good chunk of the time. Anytime they use Windows Vista, they're likely going to be using 32-bit. Anytime they use Windows XP, they're basically guaranteed to be using 32-bit. As for Windows 7, there's a good chance you'll encounter a 32-bit machine here and there as it only achieved parity (similar installbase of 32 and 64-bit) 3 years ago. Remember, your use case is not everyone else's. And 64-bit doesn't buy you much (if anything) for most software, anyway.
I'm not so sure about the
I'm not so sure about the profile you create.
I, and all of my friends, use Portable Apps on our on machine.
Using portable apps on Windows keeps the system on its best - As it was newly installed.
This is the real thing about Portable Apps.
I, like most advanced users, and those are the ones who use Portable Apps would even be happy if MS dropped support for 32 Bit and all the mess this backward compatibility brings.
We want fresh and fast systems.
And just like in OS X and Linux any software is on its own, Portable Apps give us that in Windows.
I'm not an advanced user
I'm not an advanced user, so I'm curious:
Can you tell me what 64 Bit Iron Portable does better than the 32 bit version? Or has that the 32 Bit version does not?
Drazick, You may want to re-evaluate your assumptions.
I'm pretty sure I qualify as an 'advanced user' and I am certainly not looking forward to the point in the future when Microsoft will (likely) abandon x86 (32-bit). In fact, I'm quite interested in ReactOS, an open-source reverse-engineered reimplementation of Windows currently targeting Windows NT 5.1 (aka Windows Server 2003), and part (admittedly not the most important part) of why I'm interested is because of the software NTVDM they're working on, which allows 16-bit DOS (& Windows) programs to run even on 64-bit systems.
I'm sorry Drazick, but you should consider that your use-case may not be the norm. Other than myself I know no-one (personally, IRL) that uses portable software locally, whereas I do know several people who carry the PortableApps.com Platform and several Apps around with them everywhere they go on a USB flash drive, only one of which (not counting myself) could possibly considered an 'advanced user'.
Regular Users
Besides the points made above about advanced users who still use 32-bit and support it, it's important to remember that a ton of PortableApps.com users aren't advanced users. And we're actively growing this group. We're trying to make it as easy as possible for all kinds of users to use our apps either on a portable drive, in a synced cloud folder, or on a local drive. Making things easier makes them more accessible for regular users. If we wanted to keep it exclusively for advanced users, we'd still be using update zip files that you have to manually update and figure out which files you should replace vs leave alone.