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It's based on ungoogled-chromium and about 3 people are working on it. https://github.com/imputnet/helium https://github.com/imputnet/helium

by MYEUHD 1y ago

koakuma-chan 1y ago
And it's written in Python.
- _--__--__ 1y ago
  From a few months of use I think qutebrowser is good enough to prove that a python web browser is not inherently a bad idea.
  - imiric 1y ago
    qutebrowser is not technically a "Python web browser". The GUI uses Python Qt bindings, and the browser engine itself is QtWebEngine. Python is simply the glue that ties it all together, and any language could be used instead, since performance is not a concern. This is why there are so many small niche "web browsers", such as Luakit, Nyxt, surf, etc.
    - _--__--__ 1y ago
      Surely performance is even less of a concern for a set of tools applying one time patches to ungoogled chromium?
- Barrin92 1y ago
  it's a few hundred lines worth of scripts to produce an ungoogled chromium with some nicer defaults, why wouldn't it, in case pointing that out is meant to be a criticism.
  - koakuma-chan 1y ago
    oh ok, welp, :shrug:
- joshjob42 1y ago
  Actually it's mostly patch files but they're ignored by github.
- deleted 1y ago
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SchemaLoad 1y ago
I would not feel comfortable with my browsing data being in the hands of 3 random people.
- worthless-trash 1y ago
  What about 10,000 ?
  - zamadatix 1y ago
    Both have their pros and cons, but overall I'd go with the 10,000. Better than either is the frequency of 3rd party audits/security reviews/research interests - but I think that comes more from usage/popularity than the size of the 1st party dev team.
its-summertime 1y ago
I'm guessing it doesn't support certificate revocation very well as ungoogled-chromium has/had some issues with that. removing every google url in a browser without replacements will have such downsides
cush 1y ago
> about 3 people are working on it Hard pass. Arc had an entire dev team with serious investors and couldn't just focus on building a browser
- diffrinse 1y ago
  That's because they had serious investors
  - cush 1y ago
    Touché
- NSPG911 1y ago
  > had an entire dev team with serious investors thats literally why we get slop, because companies focus on investors rather than users? when there are 3 people working on it, they would listen more to the community

It's based on ungoogled-chromium and about 3 people are working on it. https://github.com/imputnet/helium https://github.com/imputnet/helium

by MYEUHD 1y ago

It's based on ungoogled-chromium and about 3 people are working on it. https://github.com/imputnet/helium https://github.com/imputnet/helium

koakuma-chan 1y ago

And it's written in Python.

_--__--__ 1y ago
From a few months of use I think qutebrowser is good enough to prove that a python web browser is not inherently a bad idea.
- imiric 1y ago
  qutebrowser is not technically a "Python web browser". The GUI uses Python Qt bindings, and the browser engine itself is QtWebEngine. Python is simply the glue that ties it all together, and any language could be used instead, since performance is not a concern. This is why there are so many small niche "web browsers", such as Luakit, Nyxt, surf, etc.
  - _--__--__ 1y ago
    Surely performance is even less of a concern for a set of tools applying one time patches to ungoogled chromium?
Barrin92 1y ago
it's a few hundred lines worth of scripts to produce an ungoogled chromium with some nicer defaults, why wouldn't it, in case pointing that out is meant to be a criticism.
- koakuma-chan 1y ago
  oh ok, welp, :shrug:
joshjob42 1y ago
Actually it's mostly patch files but they're ignored by github.
deleted 1y ago
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SchemaLoad 1y ago

I would not feel comfortable with my browsing data being in the hands of 3 random people.

worthless-trash 1y ago
What about 10,000 ?
- zamadatix 1y ago
  Both have their pros and cons, but overall I'd go with the 10,000. Better than either is the frequency of 3rd party audits/security reviews/research interests - but I think that comes more from usage/popularity than the size of the 1st party dev team.

its-summertime 1y ago

I'm guessing it doesn't support certificate revocation very well as ungoogled-chromium has/had some issues with that. removing every google url in a browser without replacements will have such downsides

cush 1y ago

> about 3 people are working on it Hard pass. Arc had an entire dev team with serious investors and couldn't just focus on building a browser

diffrinse 1y ago
That's because they had serious investors
- cush 1y ago
  Touché
NSPG911 1y ago
> had an entire dev team with serious investors thats literally why we get slop, because companies focus on investors rather than users? when there are 3 people working on it, they would listen more to the community