Not the biggest fan of Chromium based browsers. Thoughts on Helium ?
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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.
It just another garbage chromium browser.
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another chrome browser… garbage
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.
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’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.
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.
Been using it as my daily driver for months. Love it.
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.
Using it to run jellyfin and other self hosted apps that runs good in Chromium
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I deleted my comment fir a reason 🤨 I misread the post and thought that the OP was saying that it is not Chromium based.
Also, really? Brave is the best ever?
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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
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