Free and Open Source Software

21023 readers

20 users here now

If it's free and open source and it's also software, it can be discussed here. Subcommunity of Technology.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

Gaywallet@beehaw.org

alyaza@beehaw.org

Helium Browser? (helium.computer)

submitted 4 days ago by the_q@lemmy.zip to c/foss@beehaw.org

4 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Anyone have an experience with this Chromium based browser? It seems to be doing a lot of neat things so what's y'all's thoughts on it?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] noorbeast@lemmy.zip 22 points 4 days ago

I use LibreWolf on Linux as my primary browser, but have recently installed Helium as a backup browser for rare times where chrome is required for a specific site, or for testing.

Helium seems pretty transparent, even giving the option in setup not to use their enhancement services, or self-hosting those same enhancement services, or turn them off if you want to.

Helium currently supports MV2 extensions and has Ublock installed by default, though it is hard to say how long they may maintain MV2 support, given Google ditched it.

While not my daily driver Helium does seem to get rid of Google monitoring, has solid base settings and security defaults, includes Ublock by default which I think is absolutely necessary, and has some nice use and customization features.