Not the biggest fan of Chromium based browsers. Thoughts on Helium ?
another chrome browser… garbage
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.
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
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.
Weird that Twitter is the only social network they have an account on…
Using any Chromium browser contributes to Google’s ever-encroaching monopoly on all things Web. Hard pass.
It just another garbage chromium browser.
chromuim is great. just this browser is shit
garbage browser. brave is the best browser,even better than fireshit.
Can’t tell if cult member or troll. Either way the comment is of 0 value.
Also, brave is a series scam company. Always has been, always will be.
not troll.
low quality bait dot jpeg
not a bait
Been using it as my daily driver for months. Love it.
Using it to run jellyfin and other self hosted apps that runs good in Chromium
I didn’t know about this. Does WebHID work? I having to install chrome or edge or something just to use a web based keyboard configuration and flash tool.
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?
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.
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.
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
If you have to use garbage ass Google monopoly-ware, I’d suggest Vivaldi, but I’d recommend even avoiding that one like the plague.
Vivaldi is proprietary. I would def avoid that. For Chromium forked browser use Cromite instead.
I’ll have to try that one. I was thinking it was an android browser. Oh well. I only said Vivaldi because I note its lack of AI and it’s available on all the desktop platforms
its a bit more than that with me. Even with FF changing the way it did addons I still find chrome add ons to be kinda weenie relative to FF. I do feel FF is a better base.
