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Oh..that's crazy. I just assumed it was the makers of Kagi search.
That's https://kagi.com/orion/
I’m using and loving Orion on my iPhone.
Helium Browser
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#82What 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
You found the authors' screen names and some other things they've made.
That's not finding who they are. No one has signed their names, like their real names, to this. Who are they? Intelligence agents? For which country? There's no way to know.
Re: Helium Browser
#83another chromium fork?
It’s the new vscode fork
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
You found the authors' screen names and some other things they've made. That's not finding who they are. No one has signed their names, like their real names, to this. Who are they? Intelligence agents? For which country? There's no way to know.
But their chosen public pseudonym is "dumbmoron". Surely we can fully trust them!
Re: Helium Browser
#85How will they make money? Or is this always meant to be OSS community supported? The challenge is that people have to get paid and infrastructure to build things costs money. Looks like there are only two people full-time at the company right now, though even then eventually they’ll need some revenue stream. I love this project, but to have confidence that it stays that way it would be nice to see how they’ll replace…
Why does a browser need to be continually updated? Is Google/W3C adding more features and busy work to keep browser developers employed?
Yes. I left a feedback about a website posted on HN, turns out it works just fine on the latest version of Vivaldi, but not a previous version from a few months ago. So yeah, gotta keep it updated. :(
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#86You have my attention! But in this day and age, I need to understand more about intentions, and what sustains projects like this. For the moment I've settled on Safari simply because Apple makes its billions elsewhere, even if I am increasingly disappointed with how they are playing along with politics right now.
What makes you think that Apple respects your privacy any more than Google and Microsoft? The marketing brochure?
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#87Why 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 doll…
There is some space you can click on for dragging the window, or on Linux just hold Alt and move the window. I have an application for Windows that allows me to do the same.
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#88Bangs, or as I like to call them AOL Keywords.
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#89One criticism with your website: It incorrectly assumes I'm not on desktop and hides the download button from me.
Re: Helium Browser
#90What 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…
Well it is just one those element naming chrome fork. Kinda like:
https://iridiumbrowser.de/ But that one looks have not being updated in a while. But what is the point forking Chrome browser now days since manifest 3?
I switched back to firefox/librawolf for now.