What’s new in Helmet
Every Helmet update as published on the Mac App Store — new protection features, Chromium engine rebases and security fixes.
We are happy to announce once again unique new features: - YARA Support; - MCP Monitoring; - New internal Helmet pages: helmet://terms, helmet://privacy and helmet://support - Improved Safety Check, Helmet Logs and MCP / CDP monitoring; - Added control of Web app installations; - Minor layout improvements; - Chromium engine updated to 152.0.7977.65. Your feedback is important for us to improve the user experience and product quality. We hope you enjoy using Helmet!
Helmet is even more secure in this version. We have introduced the "Clipboard Scan" on this version! Now every URL will be scanned as soon as it is copied to the clipboard! The extended Safety Check now covers all unique Helmet protection layers. Check it out on Helmet Settings > Privacy and security. This update also includes other 370 security fixes from the Chromium engine. Please see the Chromium Security Page for more information. Your feedback is very important to help us make Helmet Web Browser Firewall even better. Consider rate Helmet on App Store! We hope you enjoy using Helmet!
This update includes 7 security fixes: * Critical CVE-2026-15899: Use after free in CameraCapture. Reported by Google on 2026-05-27; * Critical CVE-2026-15900: Use after free in GPU. Reported by Google on 2026-06-14; * Critical CVE-2026-15901: Use after free in Network. Reported by Google on 2026-07-10; * High CVE-2026-15902: Use after free in Cast. Reported by Google on 2026-06-10; * High CVE-2026-15903: Out of bounds read and write in V8. Reported by OpenAI Codex Security (amyb) on 2026-07-06; * High CVE-2026-15904: Use after free in Ozone. Reported by Google on 2026-07-09; * High CVE-2026-15905: Use after free in Aura. Reported by Google on 2026-07-09; - Chromium rebase to latest update 150.0.7871.129; - Improved Hover Scan message status; - Improvements on Hover Scan UI when VirusTotal is enabled; - Fixed duplicated / stalled Hover Scan layout indicators for Safe Browsing and PhishTank contributors on some scenarios; - Fixed late arrival of 0-Reputation domain check response on scoring engine; Now reflects the correct final URL score value once contributor response arrives; - Fixed a bug on Helmet Firewall / Hover Scan button search bar button layout, when a URL is longer than the available width it makes the static 'Helmet Firewall / Hover Scan' button to shrink. We hope you enjoy using Helmet!
- Added two new Navigation shortcuts (on mouse right-button), to quickly access: "Firewall Settings" and "Go to Firewall Rules"; - Fixed the button label to 'Add a rule' on Firewall Rules when there is no rule to Edit; - Improvements on alert handling of URLHaus contributor when a non-macOS artifact is detected; - Moved "Safe Browsing", to a dedicated section on Helmet Firewall settings page; - Chromium rebase to latest stable 150.0.7871.125. Important security fixes are addressed in this version. Your feedback is important for us to improve the user experience and product quality. We hope you enjoy browsing safely with Helmet.
We happy to announce some great new features: We introduce the "Magic Select" and "Manual Select" features to Helmet Hover Scan; We introduce the "Helmet Tabs" as side-panel (left and right), on Tab menu; We added the PhishTank (operated bu Cisco Talos), as a new TI feed contributor; We also updated the Chromium engine to latest mac stable release 150.0.7871.115; We fixed minor bugs and improved user experience with the new functionality Control Panel in the search bar / navigation bar; We hope you enjoy using Helmet Web Browser Firewall 1.0.9 !
Improvements on user experience and stability. Important security fixes. Chromium rebase to latest stable version 150.0.7871.24. Fixed a issue on CloudKit communication. Increased VirusTotal scanning timeout. We hope you enjoy!
Improvements on user experience and stability. Important security fixes. Chromium rebase to latest stable version 149.0.7827.54. We hope you enjoy!
Helmet introduces the Hover Scan feature on 1.0.6 version! Hover Scan analyze a URL just moving the mouse cursor over the a URL link, let the user to "Scan this URL on VT" on-demand and prevent suspicious/malicious access even before the user clicks on it. This is really amazing feature and works with an improved user experience when VirusTotal is Integrated. We hope you enjoy it!