Google Chrome vs Iridium Browser

By logging into Chrome using a Google account it's possible to sync history, extensions, passwords, bookmarks and other settings between devices. This makes it great for anyone working with multiple devices as it allows experiencing consistent context when in the browser.

For example, the address bar is also the search bar. Google calls it Omnibox.

Chrome comes with built-in developer tools, making testing and enhancing web pages simpler for those of us involved in working with such technologies. As well as being beneficial to developers, this also has some benefit to non-technical users; in that by making testing simpler for developers those developers are more likely to use Chrome for their tests, and can spend more time making improvements over investigating underlying causes of issues.

There are far more available on this browser than any other, and that may matter for some.

According to TopTen Reviews, Chrome is currently one of the best performing browsers for initial (cold) startup, average startup, and navigation times. Works very well with the uBlock Origin adblocker.

Chrome updates in the background ensuring you're always on the latest version. This makes it much more likely that sites will work on your browser, since (almost) all Chrome users will be running exactly the same version.

You can have multiple Chromes with different accounts logged at the same time. And it is really easy to manage different accounts.

Unlike Firefox, Google Chrome can keep its fast performance regardless of how many extensions are installed. With more than 10 extensions Firefox gets slower and slower in a geometric progression rate. Google Chrome doesn't care how many extensions the user has installed - 3 or 133 it still performs great.

Each of the managed users can have their own configuration (themes, extensions, ...)

It uses the blink rendering engine which has removed many legacy khtml/webkit code to be much lighter and faster.

Unlike those various unofficial Chromium builds, there is only one distributor, so all Chrome releases follow the same standards.

Every tab runs as their own process, so if one crashes or becomes unresponsive, the whole browser isn't affected.

Chrome uses online services to collect our data and improve our browser experience. But this also means it spies on you.

Chromium is open source, except the proprietary media codecs like AAC, H.264, MP3 and Adobe Flash, that can't be legally open-sourced.

As of March 2015, Chrome is the most popular browser on the internet, with a 43.9% - 63.7% market share, Its rendering engine Blink is also the most used rendering engine and used in many products including: Opera, Vivaldi, Qt, Brave, Steam or Electron meaning most developers will be testing their sites against this browser to ensure compatibility.

Whilst Chrome is based on the open source browser Chromium, Google reviews this code and build on top of it. This means it takes (and contributes to) a number of the benefits of the open source model whilst having the resources, support and investment of a major company.

Includes support for many licensed unfree media formats.

Google Chrome comes with its own flashplayer and the most common multimedia codecs so you don't have to worry that they are outdated nor do you need to install them as a third party package.

• 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.