64bithero@lemmy.world to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 5 天前Thoughts on Helium browser?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square71linkfedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down15file-text
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minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·5 天前It specifically supports (and ships with) full UBO, not the neutered ManifestV3 version.
minus-squareJames R Kirk@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 天前It was my understanding that moving forward full fat UBO would not work on any modern Chromium browser, but I’m admittedly not enough of an expert to know better.
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·5 天前Helium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward. It’s not like a side thing, either; full (not lite) UBlock Origin is the headline feature of Helium. It’s literally shipped with the browser.
minus-squareJames R Kirk@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·5 天前So it’s not technically Chromium anymore? It’s a fork of Chromium?
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 天前Mmm, its versioning keeps up with Chromium, and the source just looks like a bunch of patches to me: https://github.com/imputnet/helium/tree/main/patches/helium/core Not a fork, I don’t think.
minus-squareJames R Kirk@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-25 天前Sorry what did you mean by “Helium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward”? A fork of what?
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 天前 So it’s not technically Chromium anymore? It’s a fork of Chromium? It’s not a fork, IMO. It’s just a set of patches to upstream Chromium.
minus-squareVoxel@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 天前TL;DR: It’s a soft fork of Ungoogled Chromium which is a soft fork of Chromium.
It specifically supports (and ships with) full UBO, not the neutered ManifestV3 version.
It was my understanding that moving forward full fat UBO would not work on any modern Chromium browser, but I’m admittedly not enough of an expert to know better.
Helium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward.
It’s not like a side thing, either; full (not lite) UBlock Origin is the headline feature of Helium. It’s literally shipped with the browser.
So it’s not technically Chromium anymore? It’s a fork of Chromium?
Mmm, its versioning keeps up with Chromium, and the source just looks like a bunch of patches to me:
https://github.com/imputnet/helium/tree/main/patches/helium/core
Not a fork, I don’t think.
Sorry what did you mean by “Helium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward”? A fork of what?
It’s not a fork, IMO. It’s just a set of patches to upstream Chromium.
TL;DR: It’s a soft fork of Ungoogled Chromium which is a soft fork of Chromium.