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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 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 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 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 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 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 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.