Not the biggest fan of Chromium based browsers. Thoughts on Helium ?
another chrome browser… garbage
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It’s a weird obsession with today’s tech industry and it bewilders me every time
When people tell you who they are, believe them
The [current year] of our lord and people are still doing this
Weird that Twitter is the only social network they have an account on…
Using any Chromium browser contributes to Google’s ever-encroaching monopoly on all things Web. Hard pass.
Don’t see the point, the world doesn’t need another Chromium browser.
I’m mildly interested, given this is based on ungoogled chromium. But like all brand new projects these days, I’m put off by their potentially vibe coded internals.
Why not Vanadium then?
Because I use a desktop computer.
It just another garbage chromium browser.
chromuim is great. just this browser is shit
It’s Chromium based, doesn’t that mean uBlock isn’t going to work as well?
It specifically supports (and ships with) full UBO, not the neutered ManifestV3 version.
It was my understanding that moving forward full fat UBO would not work on any modern Chromium browser, but I’m admittedly not enough of an expert to know better.
Helium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward.
It’s not like a side thing, either; full (not lite) UBlock Origin is the headline feature of Helium. It’s literally shipped with the browser.
So it’s not technically Chromium anymore? It’s a fork of Chromium?
Mmm, its versioning keeps up with Chromium, and the source just looks like a bunch of patches to me:
https://github.com/imputnet/helium/tree/main/patches/helium/core
Not a fork, I don’t think.
Sorry what did you mean by “Helium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward”? A fork of what?
So it’s not technically Chromium anymore? It’s a fork of Chromium?
It’s not a fork, IMO. It’s just a set of patches to upstream Chromium.
kinda like it been using as chromium alternative to my daily driver librewolf.
reminds me of brave but has no brave bullshit and pretty minimalist.
I’ve been using Helium as my Chromium browser of choice (used to use Brave) for a while now. Of course, I still use Mullvad Browser (FF based) as my daily driver, but Helium has been great for anything I need Chromium for. I know Firefox good Chromium bad, but if you ever need Chromium, this seems like the least of all evils.
When… when would I ever need Chromium?
Some websites don’t work properly on Firefox. That or testing websites you’re developing on Chromium
Been using it for months, and I adore it. +1
Only thing I wish it had is JXL support hacked in like Thorium.
Sometimes I shop on Cromite (specifically for its uber hardcore anti fingerprinting), or switch to Firefox for a bit, but I’ve found myself mostly using Helium.
It is the best combo of lightweight and fast without working your CPU too hard. But this is only really relevant on old hardware. My laptop with 1 GB RAM and antiX installed is somewhat usable online now. But there are more private options for general use. Also I hate that it only has an AppImage release, it’s terrible for a browser to not be able to auto update.
My distro (CachyOS) has it packaged, so maybe you can request for yours to do it as well?
Been using it as my daily driver for months. Love it.
I can’t see any reason to trust this project with my browsing.
Seems aight, I’m fine with FF ATM though.
I do keep alternates around for rare issues, so when helium is out of beta if it ever is, I may install it.
