imputnet / helium

Helium 
 The browser built around privacy, consent, and comfort.
 helium.computer
## Downloads
> [!NOTE]
> Helium is 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:
- Latest macOS release
- Latest Linux release
- Latest Windows release
Helium supports automatic updates on macOS and Windows.
## Helium repos
All Helium packaging, tooling, services, and components are open source
and published on GitHub.
### Platform packaging and tooling
- Helium for macOS
- Helium for Linux
- Helium for Windows
### Web services
Helium services are Helium's
privacy-first cloud services that handle the extension proxy, !bangs, filter
lists, browser updates, crash reports, and etc. The services are self-hostable
and the repo includes exactly what we use and host, down to Ansible playbooks.
### Components
- Helium uBlock Origin is a
Helium-specific fork of uBlock Origin that includes our filters, defaults, and
CNAME uncloaking.
- Helium onboarding includes
the browser setup experience seen at `helium://setup` on first launch.
- Helium non-free assets
repo handles non-free assets used in Helium, such as search engine icons and
icons of other browsers.
### Tooling
- Chromium tarballs creates
prepared Chromium source archives used by Helium builds.
- Helium Prism is a Svelte UI
Component library used in onboarding and the landing page.
### Legal documents
Helium Legal repo includes the
source for Terms of Use and
Privacy Policy documents, along with their
full change history.
## Development
macOS and Linux are our primary development platforms, so they're the
recommended development environment for community contributions.
> See development docs in macOS repo
Linux packaging includes a similar development script, so the same guide
can be applied there too.
## 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
Helium originally branched off
ungoogled-chromium.
Special thanks to everyone behind ungoogled-chromium, they made working with
Chromium much easier.
### Other Chromium projects
Helium includes some patches from other open source Chromium projects:
- Inox patchset
- Debian
- Bromite
- Iridium Browser
- Brave
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 B