HELMET WEB BROWSER FIREWALL
Technical Specifications
A privacy and security-focused Chromium fork for macOS, distributed exclusively through the Mac App Store under full App Sandbox. URL threat-defense is routed through a proprietary Helmet gateway; the build ships with a jitless V8, the DrumBrake WebAssembly interpreter, Google-side telemetry removed, and GAIA password hash monitoring is disabled (removed from the source code).
Product
Helmet Web Browser Firewall
Version
1.0.8 (beta)
Build release
7871.3272
Release date
2026-06-29
Chromium base
150.0.7871.24
Distribution
Only on Mac Apple Store (General Availability)
Architecture
ARM64 | x86_64 (Universal Release)
File name
Helmet-1_0_8-7871.3272.pkg
File size
292 MB (292,450,203 bytes)
File timestamp
2026-06-26 18:50:19 UTC
SHA256 checksum
0cb32ff2ff645b79b73ef876b394d0909bce366123e11c17847b32a3a23b3bb0