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:
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
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
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Helium uBlock Origin is a Helium-specific fork of uBlock Origin that includes our filters, defaults, and CNAME uncloaking.
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Helium onboarding includes the browser setup experience seen at
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Helium non-free assets repo handles non-free assets used in Helium, such as search engine icons and icons of other browsers.
Tooling
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Chromium tarballs creates prepared Chromium source archives used by Helium builds.
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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:
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).