What is an user agent?
A user agent is a client application most commonly used to access the World Wide Web. Web user agents range from web browsers and e-mail clients to search engine crawlers ("spiders"), as well as mobile phones, screen readers and braille browsers.
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SRWare Iron 3 – Like Chrome without Google
The German company SRWare uses the sources Google offers of its Chromium browser to compile a clone of Chrome but with quiet a few modifications. The new browser is called Iron.
Iron gets rid of the unique client id, timestamp, suggest, alternate error pages, error reporting, RLZ tracking, Google updater and URL tracker. But it not only throwing things away it also adds features and updates stuff in the core. Iron uses the newest Webkit engine, adds an easily configurable adblocker and an option to alter the user-agent string permanently.
The Iron Browser is available for free as Open-Source for the Windows OS (Vista, XP) over here.
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Google Chrome available for Linux and Mac OS X
Early builds of Chrome for Mac and Linux are available on Googles Chromium blog.
The blog post says the releases are only aimed at developers because they are incomplete, unpredictable and the software might crash.
Most of the features known for the Windows build are available which the exception of flash video, privacy settings and printing facilities. Google has promised that a beta release will be available in the foreseeable future.
There is also a version of the iron browser available which has no unique id and is not sending requests to Google search for faster search results.