r/HeliumBrowserHQ

Helium's MRU Ctrl+Tab was the one Arc thing I still missed, because there's no preview of where you'll land. So I built Heliarc: hold Ctrl+Tab and you get a native Liquid Glass panel with thumbnails of your recent tabs, add Shift to go back, release to switch.

• No extension: it works with Helium directly, so it gets the real Ctrl+Tab and works on every page

• Fully on-device: no account, no telemetry, nothing leaves your Mac

• Lightweight: ~8 MB, one low-res capture per tab, no constant screen recording

• Open source (MIT), signed and notarized, auto-updates

https://github.com/robin-liquidium/heliarc. Feedback welcome!

I mean, Chrome has supported it for a few versions now. It's such a nice feature, like Arc's.
EDIT: This is essentially achievable by toggling on frameless mode. Thank you!

I'm using Helium Browser on macOS, and I've noticed that the standard ⌘M minimize shortcut doesn't work when the top bar is hidden.

However, when I unhide the top bar, ⌘M immediately starts working again.

I've tested this multiple times, so it seems to be related specifically to Helium's hidden top bar / frameless mode.

Is this a known issue with Helium? Is there a workaround that allows me to keep the top bar hidden while still using ⌘M to minimize?

Mac: MacBook Air M4
macOS: 27.0.1
Helium: 0.18.2.1 (Official Build, Chromium 154.0.8037.92) (arm64)