Helium (Chromium-based browser)

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what is CWS?

It’s packaged by brew

brew info --cask helium-browser
==> helium-browser ✘ (Helium): 0.11.7.1 (auto_updates)
Chromium-based web browser
https://helium.computer/
Not installed
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask.git
==> Requirements
Required: macOS >= 12 ✔
==> Artifacts
Helium.app (App)
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Presumably by CWS they meant “Crome Web Store”.

From helium browser website

Helium anonymizes all internal requests to the Chrome Web Store via Helium services. Thanks to this, Google can’t track your extension downloads or target ads using this data. No other browser does this.

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How’s this browser been doing? Any updates by anyone whose been using it? Becoming a viable contender?

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Yes, it has frequent updates and I never had any issues with it (although it is in beta).

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Seems to be doing fine. I’m curious what they will do now that MV2 extension support code is being pulled out of Chromium and if that impacts their uBlock Origin implementation.

Two items I am still monitoring:

  1. Can the project sustain itself long-term?
  2. Will they eventually figure out a Widevine implementation, which the current lack of it is likely a deal breaker for many users.
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This is very unlikely to happen. Even if you are willing to pay the absurd costs for a license, you first have to be actually allowed to acquire one and this has very slim chances of happening.