Not the biggest fan of Chromium based browsers. Thoughts on Helium ?
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Can’t tell if cult member or troll. Either way the comment is of 0 value.
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It just another garbage chromium browser.
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another chrome browser… garbage
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’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.
Been using it for months, and I adore it. +1
Only think 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.
Don’t see the point, the world doesn’t need another Chromium browser.
I can’t see any reason to trust this project with my browsing.
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
Weird that Twitter is the only social network they have an account on…
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The [current year] of our lord and people are still doing this
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
Using any Chromium browser contributes to Google’s ever-encroaching monopoly on all things Web. Hard pass.
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.
If you have to use garbage ass Google monopoly-ware, I’d suggest Vivaldi, but I’d recommend even avoiding that one like the plague.
Vivaldi is proprietary. I would def avoid that. For Chromium forked browser use Cromite instead.
I’ll have to try that one. I was thinking it was an android browser. Oh well. I only said Vivaldi because I note its lack of AI and it’s available on all the desktop platforms
its a bit more than that with me. Even with FF changing the way it did addons I still find chrome add ons to be kinda weenie relative to FF. I do feel FF is a better base.
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.
