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Questions tagged [web-browsers]

Questions regarding the installation and use of web browsers.

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How do I install Google Chrome?

When I go to download Google Chrome from http://www.google.com/chrome in Midori on the Raspberry Pi , I am presented with a modal dialogue box, Please select your download package: 32 bit .deb (For Debian/Ubuntu) 64 bit .deb (For…
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Where is the bottleneck of web browse speed on raspberry pi?

On a Model B 512 MB Pi with Raspbian “wheezy”, I have tried Midori, Chromium and Iceweasel. When the web page gets larger, loading is slow, even after I overclocked it to 1 GHz. On an Android phone with a 1 GHz CPU, the web page loading seems much…
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Whenever I install Iceweasel it installs Firefox instead

I used the following command to install Iceweasel. sudo apt-get install iceweasel However, instead of Iceweasel, I get Firefox. Not that I'm complaining much, I love Firefox. If you click on Menu > Internet, there are 2 Firefox logos. One says…
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Can I speed up web browsing on the Raspberry Pi?

Browsing the web using Midori on the Raspberry Pi feels very slow. I appreciate that the speed at which a web page will load is determined by a number of factors including: the speed of the network connection, the web browser that I am using and…
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beta epiphany-browser (Web Browser), comand line auto start?

I am running Raspbian, and I am trying to setup a "kiosk mode" box. I have successfully done this with midori, but midori does not support html5. so I wanted to try the new beta "web browser" (seems to run epiphany-browser). my current setup is…
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Run a GUI without the desktop

I would like to run a web browser or a simple GUI without running the whole desktop. I want to use my Raspberry Pi as a simple web server, but still have a very simple GUI for controlling my 3-D printer with a few buttons and graphs. I don't want to…
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Running a webpage on startup

I have a touchscreen based kiosk application running on my raspberry pi. In this application I need to load a webpage , which once opened will load a user interface. Now, my question is how do the make the raspberry pi load this page directly on…
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Whitelist internet filter

I want to set my small kids loose on the Raspberry Pi with Scratch 2.0 and code.org without having to worry about them accidentally ending up in the undesirable parts of the web. I have set up OpenDNS to filter web content for the Pi, but even on…
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Fastest browser for a minimal kiosk mode for Raspberry pi zero?

I need suggestion for a lightweight browser for kiosk mode for raspberry pi zero. Chromium is running but it is a bit slow for my required application. My application is just displaying scrolling text data from server port.
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GPU accelerated Video decoding on a browser. Is it possible?

Let's say I have a Rpi (B+) and want it to act as Kiosk, where a video will play on a loop in fullscreen. The video will change programatically, so I need an API to control it. I've done this before, in x86 machines, with no problem, in a web based…
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Firefox 57 on a raspberry pi

I have just heard about the new firefox "Quantum". It says it uses 30% less RAM. Since the pi only has 1gb of ram, this sound good. Also, it would be nice to have a newer version of firefox. So, can I install Firefox quantum on my raspberry pi…
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Setup microphone stream and turn your raspberry pi into a baby phone

I have a "simple" question. I would like to turn my Pi into an audio streaming device for a game, where I need to hear what is going on in a room. So I connected a USB microphone to the Pi and would like to set up a stream now, that streams the…
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Starting Browser from terminal and being able to control it via Python

I've got a Pi with a Adafruit TFT LCD installed. I'm using omxplayer and fbcp to stream videos at startup using python, like so: # Start Loop ct = 1 video_list = glob.glob('videos/*') os.system('fbcp &') while ct < 300: ct += 1 for val in…
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Epiphany crashes

I have the Epiphany web browser running 24/7 to display up-to-date weather on a monitor from WeatherUnderground but it keeps on crashing by next morning. I am not sure how to figure out what is causing this. Sometimes you have to also reboot the…
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Is Raspberry Pi 4 fast enough to watch online videos with 1080p?

The Pi 4 has a faster processor (1.5 GHz Quad-Core ARM-Cortex A72). I am wondering if it is now possible to watch HTML5 videos on a browser (for example YouTube) and with 1080p quality without lagging and sticking?
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