Tell HN: Helium is the best browser I ever used

4 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by prmph

Item id: 48436918

5 Comments

satvikpendem

5 hours ago

> is Chromium-based

Yeah I'm out, not using any Chromium browsers, especially due to not having full extension and adblocking support.

I'm not sure when you used Firefox but I don't find it slow at all, seems to be on par with Chrome and Safari.

prmph

5 hours ago

It has uBlock Origin built in. No need to even install it.

Bender

9 hours ago

Helium is my fallback when a Firefox addon is giving me grief and I don't feel like debugging it/them. Firefox will always be my primary as I find the addon options make the internet functional for me. Canonical, Certage, ClearURLs, CSS Exfil Protection, FoxReplace, NoScript, Tab Reloader, Temorary Containers, uBlock Origin, Zoom Page WE

I use both browsers on Linux.

tt_dev

9 hours ago

Well you put it on my radar

colesantiago

8 hours ago

> And I've tried a large number of browsers over the years: IE, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Orion, Zen, Brave, Mullvad, DuckDuckGo, Vivaldi etc, etc.

If you are on any of these browsers, especially Chrome please switch to Helium.