SRWare Iron Browser

[CeilingKitten]

Hello TCL =], Cant believe I had'nt heard of Tiny Core before, i'm loving it.  I'm trying to find out how to add my fav browser though =S.

It's based off of Chrome/Chromium, but it strips out all of Google's tracking features (Client-ID, Timestamps,
Suggestions, Alternate Error Pages, Error Reporting, RLZ-Tracking, Google Updater, & URL-Tracker), it has AdBlock (similiar to adblock plus, Fanboy releases a list for it) and UserString changers built in, all you have to do is add adblock.ini or UA.ini to program dir.

Details:
http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php


Linux Download Code:
http://www.srware.net/downloads/iron-linux.tar.gz

Any help would be appreciated, I am so use to windows and i tried ubuntu a few times but im not sure how to install without it coming right from the repositories/add remove programs dialog.  Some hints, instructions, or maybe someone could put it on the repo =]

Many thanks for TCL, I am thinking it will be my new fav OS.


Benchmarks Iron vs. Chrome vs. "the Rest"  (spoiler Iron won) =p
http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1905

[Arslan S.]

i have adapted my chromium build for srware iron but there is a small problem
libffmpegsumo.so in iron-linux.tar.gz is 64 bit object while the others are all 32 bit

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tc@box: iron-linux$ file libffmpegsumo.so
libffmpegsumo.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, not stripped
it runs without libffmpegsumo though

[CeilingKitten]

libffmpegsumo.so in iron-linux.tar.gz is 64 bit object while the others are all 32 bit

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tc@box: iron-linux$ file libffmpegsumo.so
libffmpegsumo.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, not stripped

Hey Arslan,

Thanks for looking into it =]  

Google says ffmpeg is a video codec? will not having affect browsing or will it just mean that videos other than flash will have to be viewed in a local player?  Without is probably fine. =]

Although someone mentioned replacing ffmpeg in their folder on the iron forum, as they were running 32bit?  It looks like he is using Chromiums libffmpegsumo.so instead... it sounded like it worked for him, to make a functioning build.

(http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2234#p8151).

The browser didn't recognize the video format. I checked the libffmpegsumo.so library, which is delivered with the iron:
$ ldd /opt/iron-linux/libffmpegsumo.so
not a dynamic executable

It seems there is a problem with the codec library. I deleted the iron-version of the library and used the version, which is available on Ubuntu 10.04 together with the chromium browser package. The lib can be installed standalone by calling
$ sudo apt-get install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg

I simply copied the installed ffmpeg to the /opt/iron-linux/ directory. Starting the ldd command again:
$ ldd /opt/iron-linux/libffmpegsumo.so
linux-gate.so.1 => (0x0037f000)
libvpx.so.0 => /usr/lib/libvpx.so.0 (0x0041f000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0x0053f000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00110000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0x0012f000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0x007e2000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0093f000)

[Arslan S.]

just downloaded iron-linux.gar.gz again looks like they have replaced 64 bit libffmpegsumo.so with 32 bit libffmpegsumo.so

[vinnie]

Benchmarks Iron vs. Chrome vs. "the Rest"  (spoiler Iron won) =p
http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1905

I think the benchmark is invalidated by the newest  version of iron compared to chrome

[CeilingKitten]

just downloaded iron-linux.gar.gz again looks like they have replaced 64 bit libffmpegsumo.so with 32 bit libffmpegsumo.so

Neat, i guess they found the advice in the forum and updated it.  That was pretty quick update.  So Iron will be searchable in the repository in a while, thats good to hear. Thanks again Arslan =].

Benchmarks Iron vs. Chrome vs. "the Rest"  (spoiler Iron won) =p
http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1905

I think the benchmark is invalidated by the newest  version of iron compared to chrome

Quite possibly but the lack of phoning home on so many levels, i think is good for both privacy and speed.  Iron still has webgl and gpu rendering and all the other things chrome/chromium has you just have to go to About:Flags to turn the experimental features on and off.

But its definitely debatable =]  I would sacrifice speed for privacy though.  I usually have 2 browsers installed anyways.

[vinnie]

privacy (and therefore the paternity of your data) is first of all 
However I knew that chromium was already "clean", probably not enough