Helium Browser
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Helium Browser
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#2What's the catch? Looks too good to be true.
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#3Can 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?
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#4Does it have manifest V2 like CNAM filtering? And if it's chromium based how is it going to support back port of features that are making it to chromium without investment in a robust dev team?
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#5What's the catch? Looks too good to be true.
It looks like a pretty normal chromium variant to me? It's nice to see the work of ungoogled-chromium given a nicer skin.
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#6Does it have manifest V2 like CNAM filtering? And if it's chromium based how is it going to support back port of features that are making it to chromium without investment in a robust dev team?
They say they'll support MV2 "as long as possible".
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#7It's based on ungoogled-chromium and about 3 people are working on it.
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#8And the biggest problem with extensions is their security model of permissions. How is this solving for that?
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#9How 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 they’ll stay afloat.
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#10Does it have manifest V2 like CNAM filtering? And if it's chromium based how is it going to support back port of features that are making it to chromium without investment in a robust dev team?
It's based on ungoogled-chromium which applies https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blo... to retain manifest v2 features. They're likely dependent on ungoogled-chromium for maintaining this feature.