Helium Browser

Greg Tube Times
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When Brave becomes bloated with thier own services.

https://x.com/heliumbrowser

You can run own services server as well, nice.

I use Pop!_OS and here’s what i do:

  1. Download Linux AppImage Releases · imputnet/helium-linux · GitHub
  2. Put in ~/Applications/Helium and in the directory ln -s helium-0.7.3.1-x86_64.AppImage latest
  3. Create this file in ~/.local/share/applications/helium.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
NoDisplay=false
Name=Helium
Exec=/home/{your home}/Applications/Helium/latest
Icon=/home/{your home}/Applications/Helium/product_logo.svg
Comment=Helium Browser
  1. Download app icon from helium/resources/branding/product_logo.svg at main · imputnet/helium · GitHub and put in:
    ~/Applications/Helium
  2. Run in terminal command line:
    update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications
  3. Helim icon should show up in Apps so you can pin it
  1. GitHub - imputnet/helium-linux: Helium Browser for Linux
  2. https://x.com/heliumbrowser

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Are you using this daily? If so, how is it holding up?

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Yep, it’s my main browser and use it daily.

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Interesting. I’ll take a look, I’m fed up with Brave’s crypto stuff tbh.

5

Been using Helium for a couple of days now. Pretty nice! The only thing I miss so far is being able to add a background for the new tab. Other than that, looking good. Thanks for the recommendation Greg.

Edit: forgot to mention, still using Brave on my phone. There’s an unofficial Helium Android app but didn’t feel like getting into it.

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Hopefully Helium gains ground in making official apps easier to install. I still use as my daily driver, no issues here. Been migrating to latest Pop!_OS COSMIC, so far been great.