https://github.com/imputnet/helium
Private, fast, and honest web browser
https://github.com/imputnet/helium
browser chromium privacy web-browser
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Private, fast, and honest web browser
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/imputnet/helium
- Owner: imputnet
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2025-02-15T11:43:15.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2026-04-11T13:07:29.000Z (about 2 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-04-11T14:12:29.913Z (about 2 months ago)
- Topics: browser, chromium, privacy, web-browser
- Language: C++
- Homepage: https://helium.computer
- Size: 24.2 MB
- Stars: 13,229
- Watchers: 53
- Forks: 283
- Open Issues: 314
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Agents: AGENTS.md
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README
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)).