Slimjet vs Iridium Browser

Lower memory footprint and CPU usage than Chromium.

Supports adding lists in ublock, adblock, adblockplus, and peerblock/peerguardian text formats.

Has advanced settings to reduce web presence footprint.

Multi-threaded streaming download manager with resume functionality. Interrupted downloads will resume when the program is launched again; number of threads and download location customizable on a per-download basis. Actually downloads Linux ISO's from most popular distributions faster than deluge, utorrent, transmission, etc.

Sign in to back up your extensions and settings, just like always.

Just have to dig into all the Settings and disable them starting with SlimJet search.

Optional buttons such as go to home page, reopen closed tab, go to downloads, go to history and many more.

Allows for downloading both video and extracted mp3 audio, a la Youtube2mp3.

You can still bring it with you on a flash drive, even when you're not on Linux.

Button is linked to cookies, so doesn't work if signed out (for security/privacy), and also doesn't include any additional tracking like a browser extension would (Facebook, Amazon, etc.)

Has a setting to unload tabs from RAM and CPU usage after a customizable threshold number of tabs are open built in.

A lot more configuration options for everything from built in "share to facebook" buttons to options meant to enable optimization on low powered/low RAM systems.

• 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
• Link auditing (<a ping="...">) is disabled 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 safebrowsing background requests.
• Disable the battery status API.

Due to access to the Chrome Web store.

They won't update automatically in the background.

You are in control and you can do almost anything with the code.

Provides installers and packages for the most operating systems and linux distributions.

• Increase RSA keysize to 2048 bits for self-signed certificates (used by WebRTC)
• 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.)

It is fast since all background services have been disabled or removed.

• 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

Supports all the modern web features.