Helium Alternatives

helium reviews and mentions

• Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jun 2026

  Ungoogled Chromium (https://ungoogled-software.github.io/) will 99.9% likely patch MV2 back in if they remove it (as there's already support and they will never remove it) and Ungoogled Chromium based Helium (https://helium.computer/) ships with uBlock Origin by default.

  And then there's still Firefox and all of its forks.

  Best of luck to Big Tech as people will move on elsewhere.

• Tell HN: Helium is the best browser I ever used
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jun 2026

  Helium (https://helium.computer/) is Chromium-based, with all the Google odiousness removed, emphasizing minimalism, privacy, zero telemetry, built-in uBlock Origin, and no sync or AI features.

  I am just a regular user that was looking for a Firefox alternative for a long time. I do not know why Helium does not get more attention. It's so fast all the time even with several hundred tabs, it never crashed, it is strongly privacy and safety protecting, I do not have one complaint about it.

  Here are some ways the others fall short:

  - Firefox and all its derivatives are frequently incredibly sluggish, even on the same machine at the same time other browsers based on Chromium and Webkit are fast. I really wanted to like them, but I just gave up finally. I can't even use Mullvad browser now.

  - Safari's interface and UX seems somewhat clunky to me. I tried Orion; it shows a lot of promise as my secondary browser, but, even after updating it today, it has significant UI regressions. And this is for software that's past version 1.0.0

  - Brave browser was pretty good, but I was disillusioned by their not taking user protection as seriously, and some of their "scandals"

  - Of course, the least said about IE, Edge, Chrome, etc, the better

  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.

• My 2026 Productivity Stack
  4 projects | dev.to | 11 May 2026

  Helium Browser(Daily Driver)

• Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2026

  Helium has all the benefits of Chromium but none of the Google bloat or other crazy AI, Crypto, Gaming or whatever ideas other browsers ship.

  Just uBlock Origin pre-installed

  https://helium.computer/

• Is Firefox Firefucked?
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Dec 2025

  and if you're a chrome user on desktop (I use ff), helium might be worth a try

  https://helium.computer

  full disclosure: one of the devs is a friend of mine

• Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Dec 2025
• Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Dec 2025

  I‘ve been a happy user of https://helium.computer for a few months now after a previous Mozilla faux-pas.

• Show HN: Helium Browser for Android with extensions support, based on Vanadium
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Oct 2025

  The repository introduces it as indeed based on Helium [0]

  [0]: https://helium.computer/

• Helium Browser
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Sep 2025

  It's based on ungoogled-chromium and about 3 people are working on it.

  https://github.com/imputnet/helium

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