feat: add Helium browser to macOS DevToolsActivePort discovery#41
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Helium (https://helium.computer, package net.imput.helium) is a privacy-focused Chromium fork for macOS. It writes DevToolsActivePort to ~/Library/Application Support/net.imput.helium/, which the existing discovery list does not cover, so the tool falls back to "No DevToolsActivePort found" or requires the CDP_PORT_FILE workaround. Add 'net.imput.helium' to macBrowsers so default discovery picks it up the same way it does Chrome, Brave, and Chromium. Tested on macOS 15.4 with Helium 0.11.7.1 (Chromium 147.0.7727.137 base). The remote-debugging port is enabled via chrome://inspect/#remote-debugging toggle; Helium also requires --remote-allow-origins=* at launch (Chromium 128+ origin allowlist), which is browser-side configuration unrelated to this change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Adds Helium (
net.imput.helium) to the macOS browser candidates ingetWsUrl()so default discovery picks up itsDevToolsActivePortwithout requiringCDP_PORT_FILE.const macBrowsers = [ 'Google/Chrome', 'Google/Chrome Beta', 'Google/Chrome for Testing', 'Chromium', 'BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser', 'Microsoft Edge', + 'net.imput.helium', ];Helium is a privacy-focused Chromium fork for macOS. It uses its bundle id as the profile directory name (under
~/Library/Application Support/), which is why it falls outside the existing entries.Tested
cdp list,cdp shot,cdp navall working end-to-endNote: Helium also requires
--remote-allow-origins=*at launch (Chromium 128+ origin allowlist) for anycdp.mjscommand to actually succeed — that's documented separately in #40 and is browser-side configuration, unrelated to this change.Test plan
cdp listdiscovers Helium'sDevToolsActivePortautomatically (noCDP_PORT_FILEenv var).