helium README

The project's README from github.com/imputnet/helium. As one markdown file: README.md.

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).

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这是什么?Helium 是一款基于 Chromium 的网页浏览器,主打隐私:开箱即用的无差别广告拦截,没有臃肿功能,也没有各种干扰。它免费、开源,目前处于测试阶段。
它只是换了层皮肤的 Chrome,还是一款独立的浏览器?它是一款独立的浏览器,基于 ungoogled-chromium(去除了 Google 服务的 Chromium)构建,之后又由 Helium 团队做了大量修改。
怎么把它装到我的电脑上?从 helium.computer 下载,网站会自动为你挑选匹配的系统版本;也可以直接在 GitHub 上获取最新的 macOS、Linux 或 Windows 版本。
它能当成我的主力浏览器来用吗?差不多可以:它还处于测试阶段,可能会遇到一些意外问题,README 也请用户把自己碰到的问题反馈上来。要做好遇到不完善之处的心理准备。
我在 Windows 和 Linux 上能用吗,还是只有 Mac 版?三大桌面平台都支持——macOS、Linux 和 Windows 都有官方版本。没有提到移动端版本。
我需要另外装广告拦截插件吗?不需要。以隐私为先的广告拦截功能是内置的,而且 Helium 自己发布并维护了一个 uBlock Origin 的分支版本,而不是直接依赖原版扩展。
团队为什么选择基于 ungoogled-chromium 来开发?根据 README 中的致谢,它让基于 Chromium 的开发工作轻松了很多。它为 Helium 提供了一个去除 Google 服务的 Chromium 底子,团队再在此基础上大量修改,以实现隐私优先的目标。
它还借鉴了哪些其他 Chromium 浏览器的补丁?它包含了来自 Inox patchset、Debian、Bromite、Iridium Browser 和 Brave 的补丁。所有补丁都按来源分类存放在这个仓库的 patches 目录里。
Helium 有没有哪部分是闭源的?没有。所有的打包、工具、服务和组件都是开源的,并发布在 GitHub 上,包括新手引导应用和 Helium 自己维护的 uBlock Origin 分支版本。
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