Chromium Portable (split from Pale Moon thread)

SYSTEM · **Posted:** Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:52 pm

I have switched my secondary browser from Pale Moon Portable to Chromium Portable.

Among other things, this means that I will no longer track new versions of Pale Moon Portable.

freakazoid · **Joined:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:45 pm **Posts:** 598

SYSTEM, you should add Chromium Portable to TPFC!

the_watcher · **Joined:** Mon Dec 07, 2009 2:30 am **Posts:** 140

freakazoid wrote:

SYSTEM, you should add Chromium Portable to TPFC!

+1! Chromium Portable is really FAST!and very responsive, too..
it seems to be made portable using portableapp's method, but it's not featured at portableapps.com

SYSTEM · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2011 12:30 pm

the_watcher wrote:

freakazoid wrote:

SYSTEM, you should add Chromium Portable to TPFC!

+1! Chromium Portable is really FAST!and very responsive, too..
it seems to be made portable using portableapp's method, but it's not featured at portableapps.com

Wow, I didn't expect that kind of reaction.

Chromium Portable is maintained by kAlug, who is one of PortableApps.com developers. I'm going to ask him if he expects Chromium Portable to be an official PA.c app one day.

I'm going to submit Chromium Portable later this week.

webfork · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2011 1:45 pm

Edit: The license mentioned below as BSD is not accurate. This considered Freeware due to the inclusion of closed source Flash and PDF-viewer components.

SYSTEM wrote:

Wow, I didn't expect that kind of reaction.

Chromium Portable is maintained by kAlug, who is one of PortableApps.com developers. I'm going to ask him if he expects Chromium Portable to be an official PA.c app one day.

I'm going to submit Chromium Portable later this week.

The program claims support for jPortable, its BSD licensed, and its author has worked on several other portable projects. All good stuff.

PA site: http://portableapps.com/node/29472
SourceForge home: http://crportable.sourceforge.net/

However, I have to wonder how this is different from Iron.

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3729

Quote:

However, I have to wonder how this is different from Iron.

I was going to ask the same question but thought there might have been an obvious answer I was missing

freakazoid · **Joined:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:45 pm **Posts:** 598

True about Iron.

The more I look at it, the more Iron is totally unnecessary. From the description of Chromium Portable, it looks like it also removes Google's unwanted tracking.

If the dev of Chromium Portable can confirm that the following tracking options are removed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chr ... e_tracking

Then that would be great.

Chromium already removes this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Differences_from_Google_Chrome

Iron only adds:
* built-in adblock.ini support - If you're using Adblock Plus, then I don't think Iron is necessary.
* user-agent switcher - There's an extension available here
* additional preview thumbs - Not necessary

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Anyway sorry for forking discussion! Bringing it back to Pale Moon, I'm loving Pale Moon 7!

SYSTEM · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:42 pm

freakazoid wrote:

True about Iron.

The more I look at it, the more Iron is totally unnecessary. From the description of Chromium Portable, it looks like it also removes Google's unwanted tracking.

If the dev of Chromium Portable can confirm that the following tracking options are removed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chr ... e_tracking

Then that would be great.

Chromium already removes this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Differences_from_Google_Chrome

http://chromium.hybridsource.org/the-iron-scam

In Chromium, some user tracking mechanisms are enabled by default, but they all can be disabled.

freakazoid · **Joined:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:45 pm **Posts:** 598

SYSTEM wrote:

In Chromium, some user tracking mechanisms are enabled by default, but they all can be disabled.

If there's a way to disable these via an .ini file before first run, that would be great!

SYSTEM · **Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2011 10:05 am

freakazoid wrote:

SYSTEM wrote:

In Chromium, some user tracking mechanisms are enabled by default, but they all can be disabled.

If there's a way to disable these via an .ini file before first run, that would be great!

Unfortunately I'm not aware of any way to do that.

freakazoid · **Joined:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:45 pm **Posts:** 598

Perhaps this should be a request to kAlug!

webfork · **Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:08 am

freakazoid wrote:

Anyway sorry for forking discussion! Bringing it back to Pale Moon, I'm loving Pale Moon 7!

Kinda glad you said this as this thread has taken on a life of its own. Dumped over to a new one.

SYSTEM · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2011 7:07 am

SYSTEM wrote:

Chromium Portable is maintained by kAlug, who is one of PortableApps.com developers. I'm going to ask him if he expects Chromium Portable to be an official PA.c app one day.

Just got a chance to ask. He doesn't think so.

freakazoid wrote:

Perhaps this should be a request to kAlug!

I forwarded your request. He may make a special profile (with all tracking disabled) available for download.

http://portableapps.chrismorgan.info/irc/logs/?t=2011-10-15#T14-17-08

freakazoid · **Joined:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:45 pm **Posts:** 598

Sounds good!

SYSTEM · **Posted:** Sun Oct 16, 2011 1:38 am

SYSTEM wrote:

I'm going to submit Chromium Portable later this week.

Submitted: http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2169

Vote now, please.

(It seems -.- is the member who first mentioned Chromium: http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=14386#p14386)

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