Iridium Browser is based on the Chromium code base. All modifications enhance the privacy of the user and make sure that the latest and best secure technologies are used: https://iridiumbrowser.de
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How secure is this browser??
Here is a list of enhancements:
- Increase RSA keysize to 2048 bits for self-signed certificates
- Generate a new WebRTC identity for each connection instead of reusing identities for 30 days
- Generate a new ECDHE keypair for each WebRTC connection instead of reusing them for multiple connections
- Disable using system-provided plugins (i.e. Java, Flash, etc.)
- Disable “Use a web service to help resolve navigation errors”
- Disable autocomplete through prediction service when typing in Omnibox
- Always send “Do-Not-Track” header
- Network/DNS prediction is disabled by default
- Block third-party cookies by default
- Fetch plugins list from iridiumbrowser.de where it will be updated regularly
- Site data (cookies, local storage, etc.) is only kept until exit, by default
- Passwords are not stored by default
- Input form autofill is disabled by default
- For IPv6 probes, use a DNS root server instead of Google
- The default search provider is Qwant
- Load “about:blank” on new tabs instead of the currently set search engine and/or promotions.
- Don’t report Safe Browsing overrides.
- Don’t use autofill download service.
- Disable cookies for safe browsing background requests.
- Disable the battery status API.
- Disable background mode
- Disable EV certificates, so they are shown just like “normal” certificates
- Disable Google cloud printing
- Disable Google hot word detection
- Disable Google experiments status check
- Disable Google translation service
- Disable Google promotion fetching
- Disable Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) status check
- Disable Google Now
- Disable automatic update check
- Disable profile-import on first run
- Network/DNS prediction is disabled by default
- Let user confirm downloading translation dictionaries from Google
- Always prompt for download directory
- Don’t ask to send settings to Google by default on profile reset
- Show all extensions (including internals) in chrome://extensions
Do you use this as your main browser and was there any privacy concerns with this browser in the past
I used K-Meleon, now I use Bromite on mobile phone.
Probably it shouldn’t be your first choise, but there are far worse browsers out there.
I use Bromite on my mobile and firefox along with Brave on my pc