1/5/2024 0 Comments Chrome browser portable![]() The portable Google browser can run directly from the USB stick ![]() To download your copy of portable Google Browser, head over to this site and click the download link - the site in German but the software language is English. Like other portable apps, Google Chrome 2 portable too has all the features available in the main Chrome browser but requires no installation - just unzip the files in a folder and start Chroming. When the time comes to update the portable version of Iron, see Update Portable Iron Browser the Easy Way at the How-To Geek site for instructions.For people who love to carry software on a USB drive or if you are behind a corporate firewall and can’t install new software, here’s something you have been waiting for - Google Chrome 2.0 in a portable avatar. Viewing this HP page, with drivers for one of their printers, results in the error shown below.The page displays fine in Firefox 3.5 and IE7.Įrror 300 (net::ERR_INVALID_URL): Unknown error. On the other hand, it didn't take long before I ran across a web page that Iron could not display. And rather than permanently assign a status bar at the bottom of the screen, when you hover the mouse over a link, the target of the link displays as a temporary pop-up at the bottom of the window. It also responds to CTL-plus and CTL-minus to increase and decrease the font size. I haven't used Iron or Chrome very much, but a few things made a good first impression.Īs do Internet Explorer and Firefox, Iron treats F11 as a toggle for full screen mode (a favorite thing among netbook users). Portable Iron users need to put the downloaded adblock.ini file in the "iron" subfolder. By simply downloading an adblock.ini file, Iron can block most ads, including the ads on the Make Tech Easier site itself. ![]() As a rule of thumb, a portable version of a program can exist on the same system as a regularly installed version - you just can't run them concurrently.Īn article last week at Make Tech Easier, Iron Browser: A Secure Alternative to Google Chrome, pointed up yet another advantage of Iron compared to Chrome - ad blocking. If you already have Chrome installed, you shouldn't need to remove it to use the portable version of Iron. To run it, doubleclick on IronPortable.exe in the root of the unpacked folder. Then, unpack it into any folder, the total size will be about 30MB. To install the portable version of Iron, you first download a 14MB zip file. ![]() Note that the version available at is old. The latest stable version, from May 17, 2009, can be downloaded here. From the release history it appears that development is fairly active. It is currently available only for Windows, but a version for Linux and OS X is under development. Like Chrome, Iron is free and open source. ![]() In addition, installing Iron (it's available both in a normally installed version as well as a portable version) does not install Google Updater, a program that seems to run constantly in the background. Iron protects your privacy in seven ways that Chrome that does not (see their Chrome vs. The big thing that SRWare stresses is privacy. They call their version Iron and it offers a host of advantages over Google's version. It turns out that a German software company, SRWare, does. They don't, however, offer a portable version of Google's Chrome web browser. ![]()
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