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Thoughts on Helium browser?
(lemmy.world)
Not the biggest fan of Chromium based browsers. Thoughts on Helium ?
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this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2026
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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?
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.
Sorry what did you mean by "Helium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward"? A fork of what?
It's not a fork, IMO. It's just a set of patches to upstream Chromium.