imputnet/helium

▲ 49 stars today★ 21,212⑂ 609

Private, fast, and honest web browser

About imputnet/helium

imputnet/helium is an open-source project on GitHub, mainly written in C++. Private, fast, and honest web browser It currently holds 21,212 stars and 609 forks with 518 open issues, and was last pushed on 2026-10-03 (repository created 2025-02-15).

Project Overview

Git Homed tracks it on the Today's Trending board, currently at rank #84 with 49 new stars today.

GitHub Repository Details

Repository imputnet/helium · default branch main · size 32669 KB · watchers 62 · source: GitHub REST API and repository README

README

https://github.com/imputnet/helium/blob/HEAD/Helium logo

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. It'll pick a compatible binary for your platform automatically.

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

Helium repos

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

Platform packaging and tooling

Web services and Helium components

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:

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).

GitHub Stars & Activity

21,212Stars
609Forks
518Open issues
C++Language

GitHub Popularity

GitHub stars21,212
Forks609
Open issues518
Primary languageC++
LicenseGPL-3.0
Stars gained today49
Created2025-02-15
Last pushed2026-10-03

Trending History

Daily boardrank #84 · ▲ 49 stars

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