imputnet/helium

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Private, fast, and honest web browser

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About the project

Privacy-focused Chromium-based web browser with ad-blocking and no bloat, based on ungoogled-chromium. Available for macOS, Linux and Windows.

Useful for

Install a Google-telemetry-free browser for everyday surfing
Build a custom browser build from source on macOS or Linux

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

2.2 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score.

Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 4, 2026, 13:15 UTC.

The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.

Stars per day

Bars show daily stars; the line is a moving average of the available history. Short histories do not yet establish a reliable usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Why it’s trending

13 stars so far today, about 28 expected by the end of the day.
GitHub Trending C++ today: #13, +49 stars.

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Numbers

Total stars: 21,201
Today: 13 · ≈ 28 by evening
Forks: 608
Issues and pull requests: 2,489
Watchers: 62
Language: C++
License: GPL-3.0
Latest release: 0.18.3 · October 2, 2026
Created: February 15, 2025
Last push: October 3, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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October 4, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #13, +49 stars

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