My biggest problem with Thorium was lack of updates, so I hope Helium is able to remain consistent with updates. Congrats on the launch, cobalt crew!
Helium Browser
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#13It's based on ungoogled-chromium and about 3 people are working on it. https://github.com/imputnet/helium
And it's written in Python.
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#15Can someone explain to me how this differentiates itself from (ungoogled) Chromium with a few tweaks? How does it compare to Firefox privacy wise being based on chromium?
Same. I generally avoid Chrome-based browsers on all devices.
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#16What makes me a bit uneasy about the project is that the website doesn't explain who is building it. For most open-source, I think that would be fine. But browsers auto-update, so their vendors essentially have the continued ability to run code on your machine. You want some confidence that they won't get owned and won't sell the access to bad actors down the line, so there is an element of personal trust.
All the website gives me is the name of a Wyoming LLC, Wyoming being one of the states you incorporate in if you don't want others to be able to find out who runs the company.
Granted, you can find out a bit more on Github, but in general, if you're building privacy- and security-critical tech... I think you ought to own it.
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#17Why did anyone think it was a good idea to put tabs in the title bar. How the hell am I supposed to easily drag a window if I have 100 tabs open? Who the hell thought this was a good idea? Why do I feel like the only sane human being left on Earth? Why is this project continuing to use this horrible UI convention?
How are they going to make money or enshittify this in the future or sell it off to an evil billion dollar corporation who will sell my data off to god knows who?
:/ ...the site design is nice at least.
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#18What makes me a bit uneasy about the project is that the website doesn't explain who is building it. For most open-source, I think that would be fine. But browsers auto-update, so their vendors essentially have the continued ability to run code on your machine. You want some confidence that they won't get owned and won't sell the access to bad actors down the line, so there is an element of personal trust. All the we…
It really isn't hard to find. I went to the browser's github page and then the repo author.
I now found who exactly manages this (and it turns out colbalt, too! awesome downloader)
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
And it's written in Python.
From a few months of use I think qutebrowser is good enough to prove that a python web browser is not inherently a bad idea.
qutebrowser is not technically a "Python web browser". The GUI uses Python Qt bindings, and the browser engine itself is QtWebEngine. Python is simply the glue that ties it all together, and any language could be used instead, since performance is not a concern. This is why there are so many small niche "web browsers", such as Luakit, Nyxt, surf, etc.
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#20I just can't go back to horizontal tabs anymore.