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Private, fast, and honest web browser

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2025-09-24 · latest 2026-10-14

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  1. …breaking updates. Just a browser that does its job and nothing else. I mean, helium exists. https://github.com/imputnet/helium
  2. …fill that niche of a privacy oriented Chromium fork without bullshit and focus on performance. [1] https://github.com/imputnet/helium
  3. Helium [1][2], for now at least. [1] - https://helium.computer/ [2] - https://github.com/imputnet/helium
    comment by Bender · 2026-08-01 · in Which web browser has no AI?
  4. I have permanently switched to https://github.com/imputnet/helium for a while now and have been quite happy with it. That said, I still think the browser market is garbage for consumers.
    comment by hmokiguess · 2026-07-20 · in Orion Browser by Kagi
  5. …trying OMP[5]. 0. https://github.com/ospfranco/sol 1. https://github.com/SuperCmdLabs/SuperCmd 2. https://github.com/imputnet/helium 3. https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut 4. https://github.com/earendil-works/pi 5.…
  6. They messed up basic color scheme, making it almost unusable. [0]: https://github.com/imputnet/helium/issues/1532 [1]: https://github.com/imputnet/helium/issues/1850
  7. It's based on ungoogled-chromium and about 3 people are working on it. https://github.com/imputnet/helium
    comment by MYEUHD · 2025-09-24 · in Helium Browser