New Iron-Version: 4.0.227 Beta

[SRWare]

Based on Chromium 4.0 we released a new Iron-Version.
New is a speed gain up to 30% and support for Bookmark-Synchronisation.
Additionally the Extension-System was improved, there is now a user-friendly control interface and you become warnings for potential harmful plugins.
Also the Windows 7 support is better in this versions: Aero Peek doesn't work yet, but the integration in the new start menu is already done.

Please notice:
This is a beta version - it's probably not as stable as the currently "official" version.

Download Installer:
http://www.srware.net/downloads/srware_iron_beta.exe

Download Portable:
http://www.srware.net/downloads/IronPortable_beta.zip

Extensions/Plugins:
http://www.chrome-plugins.info/en

[old_navy]

Hi!
I am a user of IRON for long time and this is my preferred browser. I like its speed. But last version is more slow than 3.0189 and 3.0197 versions. May it be fixed in stable version?
Link below is to my tests.

http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeep ... n?key=1tki

Thanks,
old_navy

[ilboso]

Hi!
I've just tried the new v4 beta and I noticed that the AdBlocker doesn't work...

keep up your wonderful work!

[iron_man]

Hi,

So far so good. Iron 4.0 is faster than 3.0, at least according to my tests.
btw, ad blocker does work, however you have to update AdBlock.ini manually;

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http://fanboy.co.nz/adblock/iron/complete/adblock.ini

[aqua]

ok,just tried this beta version,looks good,my setup is xp-pro-sp3,using privoxy for ad-blocking=works good,,,
guys don't forget to check "use dns prefething for improve page load performance"..very fast too.

now still the bookmarks http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=687
the bookmarks imported from IE.[IE8 only right?] should be at the "STAR ICON"--LIKE IE8" here we need to add another line to browse our favorities sites...and "it doesn't look good""looks outdated"

-does it only import bookmarks fom IE8?..what about firefox,etc?

-why in options "under the hood"--USE SSL-2.0 and CHECK FOR SERVER CERTIFICATE REVOCATION is uncheck by default?

i know you guys are doing a great effort and thanks for it..

[Vibov]

Hi,

So far so good. Iron 4.0 is faster than 3.0, at least according to my tests.

I ran the Sunspider benchmark
4.0:
1514.4ms +/- 3.7%

3.0:
882.4ms (+/- 7,4%)

JavaScript - nearly two times slower.

(Still faster than Firefox, though - 2070.2 ms).

btw, ad blocker does work, however you have to update AdBlock.ini manually;

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http://fanboy.co.nz/adblock/iron/complete/adblock.ini

Hang on, so do I get it right - every time I see one of these annoying flash commercials (I did download your adblock.ini file, but they still appear on the websites I visit), all I have to do is right-click on the flash ad, copy its address, open adblock.ini, paste the address, save the file and (after the browser is restarted of course) - voila!
That sounds very 2009


Man it's really annoying... I support the cause, but... v.3.0 couldn't get the bookmarks bar right (I complained about it in another thread), now I upgraded v4.0 happy to discover the bug does not exist - bang, the adblocker is gone.

[iron_man]

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============================================
RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
--------------------------------------------
Total:                 1285.0ms +/- 4.0%
--------------------------------------------

  3d:                   160.6ms +/- 22.2%
    cube:                61.8ms +/- 19.1%
    morph:               45.6ms +/- 40.7%
    raytrace:            53.2ms +/- 27.4%

  access:                72.2ms +/- 25.2%
    binary-trees:         3.2ms +/- 42.6%
    fannkuch:            25.2ms +/- 27.1%
    nbody:               36.6ms +/- 23.6%
    nsieve:               7.2ms +/- 39.4%

  bitops:                69.4ms +/- 23.7%
    3bit-bits-in-byte:    6.4ms +/- 10.6%
    bits-in-byte:        15.2ms +/- 27.4%
    bitwise-and:         16.8ms +/- 28.9%
    nsieve-bits:         31.0ms +/- 25.7%

  controlflow:            5.4ms +/- 20.6%
    recursive:            5.4ms +/- 20.6%

  crypto:                71.2ms +/- 22.5%
    aes:                 25.2ms +/- 23.5%
    md5:                 26.4ms +/- 22.2%
    sha1:                19.6ms +/- 30.6%

  date:                 185.2ms +/- 14.4%
    format-tofte:        92.0ms +/- 25.0%
    format-xparb:        93.2ms +/- 10.6%

  math:                  90.2ms +/- 5.6%
    cordic:              29.0ms +/- 29.5%
    partial-sums:        46.4ms +/- 20.1%
    spectral-norm:       14.8ms +/- 24.8%

  regexp:                39.4ms +/- 28.0%
    dna:                 39.4ms +/- 28.0%

  string:               591.4ms +/- 11.6%
    base64:              67.4ms +/- 28.0%
    fasta:              100.0ms +/- 25.4%
    tagcloud:           141.2ms +/- 14.8%
    unpack-code:        189.4ms +/- 4.0%
    validate-input:      93.4ms +/- 31.0%

Sunspider, IRON 4.0
Well my friend, seems like there are other variables affecting the results.

[ilboso]

btw, ad blocker does work, however you have to update AdBlock.ini manually;

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http://fanboy.co.nz/adblock/iron/complete/adblock.ini

I've re-downloaded adblock.ini and it's all right!
thanls!

[jokerjokerer]

I cannot set it as default browser. I use Windows 7 Ultimate X86.
The Iron it does not appears in the windows list of installed programs/browsers and inside the browser i can see that:

Srware cannot determine or set the default browser.

So any ideas how to set it as default to open links from other programs ?

[SRWare]

I cannot set it as default browser. I use Windows 7 Ultimate X86.
The Iron it does not appears in the windows list of installed programs/browsers and inside the browser i can see that:

Srware cannot determine or set the default browser.

So any ideas how to set it as default to open links from other programs ?

This is a known Bug on 7, will be fixed in final.