Questions tagged [web-browsers]
Questions regarding the installation and use of web browsers.
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What internet browser can I use on pi b+
Can’t use chromium on B+ what can I use ? Firefox doesn’t open either
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Why does the Chromium browser just flash (see gif) when I start it? How can I fix it?
When I start the Chromium browser on my RPi it just flashes (no nav bar ever appears).
Here's a gif (video) of what it does:
I'm connecting via VNC.
Details of My Installation
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Chromium: QR-Code for Whatsapp Web doesn't load
I want to make a python program controlling my browser on my Raspberry Pi Model B+ using Raspberry Pi OS, but am running into a very basic issue. When opening web.whatsapp.com on the installed ...
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Pi 4b Ethernet Connection Reports 1000mbps, but All Browser's Website Speed Tests report 150mbps Download Speed
My Raspberry Pi 4b Ethernet Connection Reports 1000mbps, but All Browser's Website Speed Tests report 150mbps Download Speed.
I am not using WiFi. All internet connections are Cat6 direct ethernet.
I ...
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Is my pi capable of running this in 1080p?
I have a pi 4b running Raspbian. And with it I'm hoping to run a web app on a TV in fullscreen. This web app plays an embedded youtube playlist and also has a fair few JavaScript animations on it. I ...
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Visualize a web page on raspberry OS Lite
I need to print into a web page the data stored into a raspberry. The problem is that I can't connect the raspberry to the internet so I have to check this web page in localhost. The micro SD (4GB) ...
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Not booting after enabling pixel doubling
My Raspberry Pi 4 8GB RAM version with 30Oct2021 upgrade and fully updated and booting from mSD card. As the chrome browser address bar font was too small in spite of trying many options, I tried ...
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Raspberry Pi Zero W won't open any browser [window]
SD as shipped from CanaKit worked perfectly in headless mode. But on several reimagines of the SD card, when attempting to open Chrome or Firefox using RDP, the hourglass spins for a minute and then ...
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Opening web-page in CLI
I have a Gmail API running in a docker container on raspberry pi. I only access the pi through an SSH session via terminal. It needs to authenticate me as a user. This requires that I go to a ...
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How to run Britbox on Raspberry Pi 4?
I was wondering how can I watch Britbox https://www.britbox.co.uk/ on a Raspberry Pi 4?
Currently, the video output is not running in chromium. I have tried increasing the gpu to 256 and this had no ...
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Puffin browser on raspberry pi 4 64 bit
I need to run puffin browser on my raspberry pi 4 running kali linux which is a 64 bit os.The deb package puffin.com offering is armf that is for 32 bit operating systems. I need arm64 version of ...
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Browser visual bug
I just got my Raspberry Pi 4 model B and installed and updated NOOBS.
The browser has a visual bug which looks like this:
How do I fix this?
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Chromium Embedded and GLESv2
I'm trying to use an app compiled with Chromium Embedded Framework (using the pre-built ARM binaries hosted by Spotify; I don't want to rebuild it myself). I'm having trouble getting hardware ...
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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 ...
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Firefox for Raspi
I have a personal preference for FF - mainly because I use it on the Mac's I have
But in my ignorance I am unsure whether it is "safe" to install on Pi4 under Raspi.
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Kali Linux: Unable to install chromium or firefox on Raspberry Pi
When I try to install Chromium or Firefox, the following error occurs:
$ sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
E: Package 'chromium-browser' has no installation candidate
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Improving web browsing performance on the Raspberry Pi 3
Web browsing on the raspberry pi 3 has become rather dreadful with a later version of raspbian. I am running raspbian on a Samsung EVO+ (which is supposedly faster than most SD cards..). I don't ...
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simple way to open webbrowser in fullscreen from python script
I want to open my chromium web browser in fullscreen-mode and open an URL that I get from a different config file. All this should happen automatically after booting.
For testing, I tried to execute ...
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Why does WPE Webkit has hardware acceleration but Chromium doesn't?
I'm working on an engineering project for a client and after various tests, the web software runs better when called from Webkit running on the framebuffer, than Chromium from the X. As it sometimes ...
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Fix Error Running as root without -- no-sandbox is not supported
I wanna run an easy script via the terminal which opens my webbrowser and brings it in something like a kiosk-mode by pressing 'F11'. For this I installed the module keyboard for python 2 and 3 and ...
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Midori faces error granting trust (Raspbian Stretch)
I am trying to install Midori on a Raspberry Pi 3 B+, and I am struggling to access some addresses that Midori recognises as untrusted websites. When I click "trust this website", the browser shows ...
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RPI3B+ Chromium Freeze - RAM Swap
I have some Raspberry pi's that I want to use it as a Browser Kiosk.
When I use more than one tab with chromium the pi completely freeze I need to reboot it after this because the lack of ram, if I ...
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Makes OpenVPN a local Apache Webserver accessable from outside?
I am running Apache on my Pi. It's only accessable from my local network. Now I want to install OpenVPN on the same Pi.
Is Apache accessable from outside, when I enter the static ip in my browser (...
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How to open Firefox in kiosk mode and point to a webpage?
I'm trying to run Firefox in kiosk mode.
nano /home/pi/.config/lxsession/autostart
@firefox-esr (@iceweasel)
Here, how to point the browser to a webpage?
Example - for Chromium we use this- @...
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Firefox-esr is still at v60.9.0. When will it be updated?
I have just installed firefox-esr on buster and it reports it is v60.9.0esr. The latest released 32bit esr version is 68. Why is Raspbian so far behind and when will it catch up?
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Run remote web browser on Raspbian without installed DE
I want to install and run only a web browser on my RPI4 without installing any desktop environment. I am thinking to just enter a specific URL in my browser and then to be able to access a web browser ...
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Can not resize or move terminal window or browser windows
Having an issue I am using as raspberry pi 3. I switch to the desktop open up a terminal window and I do not get the entire window. So I can not drag the terminal window nor resize the window. It is ...
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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 ...
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Firefox Arm64 available but RasPi 3B+ still 32-bit
I want to be able to use my Raspberry Pi 3B+ as a desktop system. In order to do that, I need to be able to make use of apps such as Firefox-ARM64.
Given all of the confusion regarding migrating ...
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Configure chromium display on a pseudo-headless Raspbian
I'm using my raspi as a mini meteo station which (for now) only measure humidity and temperature, and I want it to display those infos on a little screen. Considering technologies I can handle, the ...
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I can't run TOR on my Pi 3b+ how can I fix it
I want to use tor browser on my rasberry pi3b+ and I've used terminal by typing: sudo apt-get tor, it worked. But when I run tor in terminal it failed.
it says that :
Could not bind to 127.0.0.1:...
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HTML5/JS Browser for RiscOS
Is there a browser that supports modern Javascript and HTML5 for RiscOS on the Pi?
I found an old port of Firefox but its support for more modern language features was lacking.
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Install Firefox non-ESR version in raspberry Pi 3
I know it's impossible to install Chrome (not chromium) on a raspberry pi, and I know that the standard Firefox version for raspberry is Firefox-esr now. But there are some applications that are only ...
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Any browser for LibreElec/Kodi von RPi 1 B?
I was just wondering why there is no browser for Kodi Krypton on LibreElec on my Raspberry Pi (Model B Rev 2)?
Many forums state that there is no Chromium or Firefox browser for ARM processors like ...
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Qutebrowser/QTWebengine on Raspbian
I am trying to install qutebrowser on Raspbian.
I have upgraded to testing because qutebrowser is not contained in the stable repository:
# sed -i 's/stretch/buster/' /etc/apt/sources.list
# sed -i '...
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Raspberry Pi Zero Local HTML File?
I have set up my new Pi Zero (not the pi zero W), to be 'headless' - so I can plug it in to my PC via USB and SSH directly into it, without a monitor or internet connection.
I was wandering how I ...
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Opening any browser often crashes Raspbian
I've got a very simple setup on my Raspberry pi 2. It's a clean install of the latest version of Raspbian (via NOOBS) with Redshift and QuickSynergy installed. Almost any time I open a web browser, ...
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WPE - WebPlatform For Embedded built directly on Raspbian Stretch (HW Support)
I'm trying to build WebKitForEmbedded https://wpewebkit.org/ but this is disaster. I've created another post about this issue (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51578580/wpe-build-installed-directly-...
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Dropbox page display issue
I'm very new to raspberry pi and stuck on a day I've started.
Problem I struggle is related to font.
I'll upload a picture to illustate issue rather than words
It should be some language setting I ...
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is there a DRM compatable browser that is able to be fully up to date?
i am wanting to use my RPi3 for a media device at home but i can not use things like YouTube TV or other sites that require DRM support...
i know Firefox has DRM support but the browser isn't up to ...
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Is it possible to use a raspberry pi zero w to scrape web sites? [closed]
I am running Jesse lite with MATE gui on a pi zero w. I am currently running a python program that scrapes data from 6 different web sites one after the other starting at the same time every day on a ...
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How can I install the latest firefox on raspbian stretch? [duplicate]
I tried to follow this guide to do it but the pi disables them because it cannot verify the keys. Does someone have a way to do this? I'm on raspberry pi 3.
precicely this is the error i got
Err:1 ...
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Would dual booting allow me to get Rasplex and a web browser on my Pi-3?
I recently installed Rasplex on my Raspberry Pi 3 model B. I'm very happy with it, but would also like to be able to watch youtube video and movies online, etc. I know that Rasplex does not offer a ...
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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 ...
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Lightweight GUI-OS to show webbrowser with modern webpage
Hi I'm looking for an OS that is capable to show an webbrowser (in fullscreen) on an raspberry pi 2 (no other GUI elements are required/necessary).
The website is just one page using html, jquerry ...
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Raspberry PI Zero W browsers (Chromium, Midori, Kweb, Epiphany) choppy playing videos. Any better options?
Basically, my project includes displaying high-quality
images
videos
different files like text, pdf etc..
on raspberry pi zero W. What is the best OS suitable for this application?
I have used ...
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Automating web page login with bash script
I have been looking to write a script to automate login on an internal company website that is used as a Ping Board to monitor a network of IP connected cameras. I am pretty new to bash scripting and ...
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HTML doesn't show button if not in a local network using webiopi.js, how show it on the browser?
I followed a tutorial made by Jerry Hildenbrand, where he teaches how to control a LED via local network.
His tutorial works perfectly, I just need to type tightvncserver in the raspberry and open any ...
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Raspberry pi 3 + raspbian + firefox esr very slow
Hello everyone I have the Raspberry pi 3 with the raspbian system. I have installed the Firefox ESR browser and icewaesel -> Firefox ESR.
Every time I open it I slow down a lot the raspberry and I can ...
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What can I use as a fast performing and stable browser for my Raspberry Pi 3?
What is a good choice of browser for the Raspberry Pi 3?
I'm looking for something stable and fast, I am not browsing content heavy websites.
What I have tried so far and its limitations:
Chromium: ...
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