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I need to launch Chromium (or alternatively Firefox) on a raspberry PI 4 8 GB running Raspberry OS 2021-05-07 without launching xorg / xserver. Is that feasible, for example by launching it in framebuffer mode?

Thank you all.

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  • why do you need to run the browser that way?
    – jsotola
    Aug 23, 2021 at 14:47
  • Because I am developing an application that need to be run from within the browser and use as little amount of resources as possible. I am currently using the browser in kiosk mode, but it is an overkill. I think the question is really well researched since I can use other apps in framebuffer mode (such as vlc).
    – Corrado Topi
    Aug 23, 2021 at 15:17
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    it appears to be a Linux question, not a Raspberry Pi question ... unless the RPi has some FB quirk specific to RPi
    – jsotola
    Aug 23, 2021 at 16:31
  • Ports of browsers (not the two above) specific to Linux and framebuffer enabled exist, so I would say it is specific to Raspberry.
    – Corrado Topi
    Aug 23, 2021 at 17:10
  • Ports of browsers (not the two above) specific to Linux and framebuffer enabled exist - that would be where you should start looking then
    – Bravo
    Aug 25, 2021 at 9:02

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I think https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/22757/how-to-run-an-app-in-a-framebuffer/22759 answers this well.

Framebuffer is a lot more basic than X protocol support, so the application has to be specially written to support it.

You'll need to use one of the browsers that has such a specialist port, not a general web-browser like Chromium or Firefox.

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