There’s not a lot of difference between the two, especially as Raspbian’s version has Flash installed. The current default browser for Raspbian, Chromium is the open-source base of Google’s Chrome browser. It’s still heavily limited in what it can do, but it did a lot better than we expected. Scrolling is relatively smooth, YouTube playback is fine, and juggling tabs is easy. We expected our revisit to Epiphany would reaffirm our dislike for it, but honestly it still works well on the Raspberry Pi. Unlike Midori, it is optimised for use with the Raspberry Pi. Like Midori, it was once a default Raspbian browser, with a modified version used until recently when it was superseded by Chromium. Known as Web in the GNOME desktop environment, it’s an often-overlooked browser that is usually singled out for being far too simplistic and basic. The lack of features, which should have made it fast and lightweight, did not seem to help, and this gave it a severe handicap.Īs with Midori, we had high expectations looking back at Epiphany. YouTube videos stuttered, and scrolling was only smooth on low-resource websites such as Wikipedia. Unfortunately, we were surprised to find it lagging as we used it. It hasn’t been included in standard Raspbian releases since around the time of the Raspberry Pi 2 launch, so we went into testing Midori on our Pi 3 expecting it to outperform everything else. The original Raspbian web browser, well known as a lightweight browser for the Linux community, is suitable for use on a (relatively) low-powered system.
BEST RASPBERRY PI FIREFOX BROWSER FULL
The full article can be found in The MagPi 59 and was written by Rob Zwetsloot.
Is the latest choice, Chromium, the best of the lot? We test some of the best browsers available to find out. Raspbian has featured several default web browsers over the last five years, changing as internet access and power requirements have developed. They are our access point to a universe of information, and they do a lot of work to bring us all this information in a readable format.
It is hard to overstate the importance of web browsers and how much we take them for granted.
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