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Helium Browser
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#22What's the catch? Looks too good to be true.
It’s playing the Browser Company playbook
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#23Having the option to set Kagi as my search engine right away is nice. I wish more browsers included Kagi as an option.
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#24What 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. https://github.com/imputnet I now found who exactly manages this (and it turns out colbalt, too! awesome downloader) https://github.com/wukko https://github.com/dumbmoron
> and it turns out colbalt, too!
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#25>We'll keep support for MV2 extensions for as long as possible.
This doesn't particularly give people any confidence in your product if even the devs don't know how long they can hold the line. Why not fork Firefox like Zen?
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Surely performance is even less of a concern for a set of tools applying one time patches to ungoogled chromium?
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#27I just can't go back to horizontal tabs anymore.
What are you using instead?
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#28Does it support PWAs?
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#29It's based on ungoogled-chromium and about 3 people are working on it. https://github.com/imputnet/helium
And it's written in Python.
it's a few hundred lines worth of scripts to produce an ungoogled chromium with some nicer defaults, why wouldn't it, in case pointing that out is meant to be a criticism.
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#30> There are currently 2 of us
Nope. No. Thank you.
Props for featuring Kagi though.