Best privacy and unbiased ad-blocking by default. Handy features like native !bangs and split view. No adware, no bloat, no noise. Made for people, by people. Fully open source.

Source: Helium Browser

Helium’s been my default browser for a few months now and honestly, I am not looking back. It has a lower resource footprint, network footprint and mostly stays “silent” when it’s not used. In the few weeks I’ve used it, I’ve also mostly moved down to a single device use, so the sync hasn’t been an issue.

It’s alrady integrated with keychain, so my neurotic behavior to ensure that google password manager and apple keychain are kept in sync have paid off.

If you are okay with not having sync, I think they are in a stable enough space for you to have them be your main browser.

Note: there are some known issues with Alfred 5 not being able to determine it as the frontmost browser. Looking at Alfred Forums, I am noticing that there was a Helium floating browser window that might be causing some unknown issues.

I’ve submitted an issue with Alfred in case you’d like to support / follow along.