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minus-squareJames R KirklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoIt was my understanding that moving forward full fat UBO would not work on any modern Chromium browser, but I’m admittedly not enough of an expert to know better.
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·2 months agoHelium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward. It’s not like a side thing, either; full (not lite) UBlock Origin is the headline feature of Helium. It’s literally shipped with the browser.
minus-squareJames R KirklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·2 months agoSo it’s not technically Chromium anymore? It’s a fork of Chromium?
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoMmm, its versioning keeps up with Chromium, and the source just looks like a bunch of patches to me: https://github.com/imputnet/helium/tree/main/patches/helium/core Not a fork, I don’t think.
minus-squareJames R KirklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 months agoSorry what did you mean by “Helium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward”? A fork of what?
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months ago So it’s not technically Chromium anymore? It’s a fork of Chromium? It’s not a fork, IMO. It’s just a set of patches to upstream Chromium.
minus-squareVoxel@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoTL;DR: It’s a soft fork of Ungoogled Chromium which is a soft fork of Chromium.
It was my understanding that moving forward full fat UBO would not work on any modern Chromium browser, but I’m admittedly not enough of an expert to know better.
Helium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward.
It’s not like a side thing, either; full (not lite) UBlock Origin is the headline feature of Helium. It’s literally shipped with the browser.
So it’s not technically Chromium anymore? It’s a fork of Chromium?
Mmm, its versioning keeps up with Chromium, and the source just looks like a bunch of patches to me:
https://github.com/imputnet/helium/tree/main/patches/helium/core
Not a fork, I don’t think.
Sorry what did you mean by “Helium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward”? A fork of what?
It’s not a fork, IMO. It’s just a set of patches to upstream Chromium.
TL;DR: It’s a soft fork of Ungoogled Chromium which is a soft fork of Chromium.