Not the biggest fan of Chromium based browsers. Thoughts on Helium ?

https://helium.computer/

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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's Chromium based, doesn't that mean uBlock isn't going to work as well?

It’s a weird obsession with today’s tech industry and it bewilders me every time

Don't see the point, the world doesn't need another Chromium browser.

It specifically supports (and ships with) full UBO, not the neutered ManifestV3 version.

I can't see any reason to trust this project with my browsing.

It is literally Chromium based...

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.

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.

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So it's not technically Chromium anymore? It's a fork of Chromium?

Good browser, people who don't see need in a new chromium browser know nothing about today's industry lol

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.

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.

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.

I didn’t know about this. Does WebHID work? I having to install chrome or edge or something just to use a web based keyboard configuration and flash tool.

Using it to run jellyfin and other self hosted apps that runs good in Chromium

Been using it as my daily driver for months. Love it.

The [current year] of our lord and people are still doing this

My distro (CachyOS) has it packaged, so maybe you can request for yours to do it as well?

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?

Vivaldi is proprietary. I would def avoid that. For Chromium forked browser use Cromite instead.

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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.

Can’t tell if cult member or troll. Either way the comment is of 0 value.

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

It just another garbage chromium browser.

No, we don't need more chromium browsers but fewer. I will never use that garbage.

As the person who made the (currently highest upvoted) comment about not needing a new Chromium browser, could you enlighten me on what I should know about "today's industry"?

Using any Chromium browser contributes to Google's ever-encroaching monopoly on all things Web. Hard pass.

Ooh, as a web developer, I can answer this.

We (web developers) are, on average, incompetent. Many of our websites only work in Chromium based browsers, due to aforementioned incompetence.

Weird that Twitter is the only social network they have an account on…

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?

I love ff but competition is always good

Can't tell if you're joking but the problem is serious lack of competition for Chromium browsers. Every Chromium browser brings nothing meaningfully new but just strengthens Google's monopoly.

I meant in the way that chrome is good competition for ff. Not necessarily that we Need even more chromium browsers

Oh yes, it would be even worse if we only had one browser engine. We need more browser engines is the point, not more tweaked Chromium browsers.

You've got that backwards bub. Firefox is the competition. Chrome has like 65% of the market share. Chrome is the browser to compete against, not Firefox.

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.

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.

Answer me this, what chromium browser today is good??

yeah, "competition", firefox sends data to google and google pays firefox for google search to be main search in the browser out of the box

Okay ig? I hate firefox so i don't use it, but i love chromium so i want more normal browsers on chromium