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Thoughts on Helium browser? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 16 hours ago by 64bithero@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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

https://helium.computer/

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It specifically supports (and ships with) full UBO.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Sorry what did you mean by "Helium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward"? A fork of what?

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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.