Mastodawn

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 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?

github.com/imputnet/helium/tree/main/…/core

Mmm, its versioning keeps up with Chromium, and the source just looks like a bunch of patches to me:

Not a fork, I don’t think.

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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.

BladeFederation Mar 2

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.