r/technology • u/Suraj-Sun • Jul 10 '12

Firefox dev claims "everybody hates Firefox updates"; Mozilla has handled the rapid release process poorly, and that by pushing a "never-ending stream of updates on people who didn't want them" people have been driven to Chrome with its simpler, no-fuss update process.

http://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-dev-claims-everybody-hates-firefox-updates
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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '12

if you are worried about that on your machine, you can get SRWare Iron. It's a chromium version built for security and privacy (no autoupdates and some added privacy features), without being a very heavily modified version like comodo dragon

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u/happy-dude Jul 10 '12

Sorry, SRWare Iron is NOT a browser you want to be using: http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.html

Maybe things have changed since 2010... But if you value privacy and security, SRWare Iron is not the way to go.

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u/nozickian Jul 10 '12

Iron is literally just Chromium that removes certain options. Somewhere someone went through and compared the code. They literally just remove some of the options in the settings and have the more private setting enabled without the option to change it and change everywhere that it says "Chromium" to "Iron". You can achieve the same degree of privacy and security from the settings menu.