[Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900
 

Helium Mobile Browser is a lightweight QML/Qt mobile browser by Orange Labs UK.

Objective
Build a WebKit based browser using Qt and all the cutting edge related technologies (like QML). The work takes into focus 3 areas:

• Browser Chrome, focused on User Experience and Usability
• Browser Core, focused on the WebCore functionalities that are already in WebKit and, possibly, building in advance some of them
• Browser Extensions, focused on designing a Framework to implement mini-in-browser apps, to deliver small, focused services

Key features

• Support flash and java plugin
• HTML5 support (Websockets...)
• Acid3 100% (thanks to QtWebkit)

FAQ

• How to zoom? Use arrow keys (left and right)

Benchmarks

• Sunspider JS Benchmark

  1. helium browser - Total: 10448.4ms +/- 0.9%
  2. microb
  3. opera

• Browsermark

  1. helium browser - Score: 19899
  2. opera - Score: 16029
  3. microb - Score: 10059

Browser comparison

• sr00t's html5test.com comparison

Where is it?
Currently in extras-devel repository

Changelog

2.0

• Release based on Helium Reborn for Nemo

1.0

• Initial release

Screenshot
Attachment 28806

Re: [Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900
 

I know there is also harmattan port of this. Is it worked on or abandoned ?

Re: [Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900
 

Sorry, I don't know about harmattan port. This is only for Maemo5.

Re: [Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqemYmFx6ec
this one

Re: [Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900
 

Ooh, going to try it out right away.

How fast is it compared to MicroB?

Re: [Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900
 

I'll do some speed comparison later, but for me more important is better HTML5 support (websockets). Anyway it feels fast.

Re: [Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900
 

how come i cant see it in extras-devel?

edit: found it!

Re: [Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900
 

It's there. Direct link confirms that:
You should see it in HAM or FAM after update.

Re: [Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900
 

Unfortunately the project is abandoned for nearly an year, and helium browser is hardly usable in its current state :( . Not that it does not have potential, but still.

https://github.com/OrangeLabsUK/Helium-Mobile-Browser

Re: [Announce] - Helium Mobile Browser for N900
 

I've used sources from their github. I think that helium has potential. What exactly are you missing? Probably we can do something about it. It currently has good support of HTML5, which I will require later for my webapp project. I've also tried your port of QtMWeb browser, but considered it less stable than Helium. So Helium is currently better option.