ChromePlus browser

I am a huge fan of SRWare’s Iron browser. It’s based on Google Chromium but without all the Google reporting going on in the background. It’s fast but it has it’s quirks. Namely, in order to use any of the plugins, you have to use a buggy beta build.

Another Chromium based browser I found that seems to do a better job with plugins is called ChromePlus. Like Iron, it has all of the background Google communications stripped out. By default, it comes with the following plugins:

Super Drag & Drop
IE Tab
Mouse Gestures

Info about these addons, as well as a couple of other special settings, can be found on their product page. So far, all of the themes and addons that I’ve tried have worked without having to do any kind of configuration editing like I did with Iron.

I have been testing this browser out for a couple of days now. In that short amount of time I’ve found that the only thing keeping me from making it my number one browser is the lack of plugins that I enjoy using in Firefox. This is based mainly on the fact that almost all sites feel as though they load faster compared to IE and Firefox. I’ll post a comparison if I can find a good way to show if ChromePlus actually is faster (and by how much).

09.Jan.10 Browsers, Internet