Not the biggest fan of Chromium based browsers. Thoughts on Helium ?
another chrome browser… garbage
Weird that Twitter is the only social network they have an account on…
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.
Using any Chromium browser contributes to Google’s ever-encroaching monopoly on all things Web. Hard pass.
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
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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
Don’t see the point, the world doesn’t need another Chromium browser.
It just another garbage chromium browser.
chromuim is great. just this browser is shit
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.
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 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.
Good browser, people who don’t see need in a new chromium browser know nothing about today’s industry lol
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”?
Answer me this, what chromium browser today is good??
Answer me this, what chromium browser today is good??
I don’t use Chromium browsers because they’re at the verge of becoming a monopoly, it’s important to use alternatives for the foreseeable future to sustain what’s left of diversity.
It depends on your point of view, of the ones I’ve seen I’d guess Vivaldi has the best user features but it’s closed source so there’s double reason to not use it. It’s what I’d use if I didn’t care about any of this. But if you want my genuine browser recommendation from a Privacy perspective (since this is the privacy community) I suggest Mullvad Browser, it’s Firefox based and has strong anti-fingerprinting and privacy defaults - it does break some sites though and is missing some QoL features but that’s the price you pay.
Yeah different perspective, i don’t see any need in using alternatives to chromium tho, firefox works with google, so this fight with the monopolist is just ridiculous for me.
I would say don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good, if you have a problem with Mozilla as an organisation it doesn’t negate the valid concerns about the monopoly, it would effectively hand control of web standards over to Google defeating the entire ethos of the open web. The Firefox browser engine is independent even if you don’t believe the organisation behind it is, that can be verified because of open source, there’s no need to be defeatist yet.
Maybe, but i still doesn’t like firefox that much… Firefox has a bug where my vpn extension can’t connect after relaunching the browser, and it’s like every vpn i used, they don’t fix it
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.
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.
Even if Chrome is the dominant Browser it is still competition, no?
No.
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
I’ll take Missing the Point for 100, Alex.
No, we don’t need more chromium browsers but fewer. I will never use that garbage.
Okay ig? I hate firefox so i don’t use it, but i love chromium so i want more normal browsers on chromium
Using it to run jellyfin and other self hosted apps that runs good in Chromium
