2 months
Not the biggest fan of Chromium based browsers. Thoughts on Helium ?
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- 2 months
It’s a weird obsession with today’s tech industry and it bewilders me every time
- anothermember@feddit.ukEnglish2 months
Don’t see the point, the world doesn’t need another Chromium browser.
- 2 months
Using any Chromium browser contributes to Google’s ever-encroaching monopoly on all things Web. Hard pass.
- 2 months
It’s Chromium based, doesn’t that mean uBlock isn’t going to work as well?
- 2 months
It specifically supports (and ships with) full UBO, not the neutered ManifestV3 version.
- 2 months
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.
- 2 months
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.
- 2 months
So it’s not technically Chromium anymore? It’s a fork of Chromium?
- 2 months
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.
- 2 months
Sorry what did you mean by “Helium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward”? A fork of what?
- 2 months
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.
- 2 months
Weird that Twitter is the only social network they have an account on…
- 2 months
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.
- 2 months
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.
- 2 months
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.
- 2 months
My distro (CachyOS) has it packaged, so maybe you can request for yours to do it as well?
- 2 months
I can’t see any reason to trust this project with my browsing.
- 2 months
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.
- 2 months
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.
- 2 months
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.
- 2 months
Some websites don’t work properly on Firefox. That or testing websites you’re developing on Chromium
