Helium

The Chromium-based web browser made for people, with love.
Privacy-first with unbiased ad-blocking. No bloat and no noise.

helium.computer

## 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](https://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](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-macos/releases/latest) - [Latest Linux release](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-linux/releases/latest) - [Latest Windows release](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-windows/releases/latest) ## Helium repos All Helium packaging, tooling, services, and components are open source and published on GitHub. ### Platform packaging and tooling - [Helium for macOS](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-macos) - [Helium for Linux](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-linux) - [Helium for Windows](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-windows) ### Web services and Helium components - [Helium services](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-services) - [Helium onboarding](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-onboarding) - [Helium fork of uBlock Origin](https://github.com/imputnet/uBlock) ## 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](https://github.com/imputnet/helium-macos/blob/main/docs/building.md#development-build-and-environment) ## Contributing Before contributing to Helium, please read the guidelines in [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md). ## Credits ### The Chromium project [The Chromium Project](https://www.chromium.org/) is at the core of Helium, making it possible in the first place. ### ungoogled-chromium This repo is based on [ungoogled-chromium](https://github.com/ungoogled-software/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](https://github.com/gcarq/inox-patchset) - [Debian](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium-browser) - [Bromite](https://github.com/bromite/bromite) - [Iridium Browser](https://iridiumbrowser.de/) - [Brave](https://github.com/brave/brave-core) All patches are sorted by vendor in the [patches](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](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](LICENSE.ungoogled_chromium)).