Helium

<div align="center"> <img src="resources/branding/app_icon/raw.png" title="Helium" alt="Helium logo" width="120" /> <h1>Helium</h1> <p> The Chromium-based web browser made for people, with love. <br> Privacy-first with unbiased ad-blocking. No bloat and no noise. </p> <a href="https://helium.computer/"> helium.computer </a> </div>

Downloads

[!NOTE] Helium is currently in beta, so unexpected issues may occur. Please report them if they haven't already been reported.

The easiest way to download Helium is helium.computer. It'll pick a compatible binary for your platform automatically.

The same releases can also be downloaded from source on GitHub:

• Latest macOS release
• Latest Linux release
• Latest Windows release

Helium repos

All Helium packaging, tooling, services, and components are open source and published on GitHub.

Platform packaging and tooling

• Helium for macOS
• Helium for Linux
• Helium for Windows

Web services and Helium components

• Helium services
• Helium onboarding
• Helium fork of uBlock Origin

Development

macOS is our primary development platform, so it's the recommended development environment for community contributions.

Linux packaging includes a similar development script, so the same guide can be applied there too.

> See development docs in macOS repo

Contributing

Before contributing to Helium, please read the guidelines in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Credits

The Chromium project

The Chromium Project is at the core of Helium, making it possible in the first place.

ungoogled-chromium

This repo is based on ungoogled-chromium, but heavily modified for Helium. Special thanks to everyone behind ungoogled-chromium, they made working with Chromium way easier.

Other Chromium browsers

Helium includes some patches from other open source Chromium browsers:

• Inox patchset
• Debian
• Bromite
• Iridium Browser
• Brave

All patches are sorted by vendor in the patches directory of this repo.

License

All code, patches, modified portions of imported code or patches, and any other content that is unique to Helium and not imported from other repositories is licensed under GPL-3.0. See LICENSE.

Any content imported from other projects retains its original license (for example, any original unmodified code imported from ungoogled-chromium remains licensed under their BSD 3-Clause license).