64bithero@lemmy.world to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 5 days agoThoughts on Helium browser?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square71linkfedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down15file-text
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minus-squareJames R Kirk@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-25 days agoSorry 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 days ago 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 days agoTL;DR: It’s a soft fork of Ungoogled Chromium which is a soft fork of Chromium.
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.