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Subject: Re: Chromium on Pi2
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:08:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Jezbon <bonnet.jerome@gmail.com> wrote:
> chromium --disable-gpu
> 
> Then everything will run only on CPU and HTOP will tell the real story, 
> you'll likely have heaps of threads spawn, and some idea what it's doing 
> (less hidden then when GPU is processing). 
> 
Disabling the GPU leads to broadly the same behavior, but I'll have to
watch for a while to be sure. I don't think it's an improvement 8-(

> Have you tried falkon (lighter weight QTWebEngine based Chromium - KDE 
> project work) or iridium (stripped out Google BS code version of 
> chromium)? Do they load the page you're trying to get?

Looks like neither is available for 32-bit RaspiOS. There does seem
to be a 64-bit version of Falkon available, I'll try that on my Pi5:

At the moment the "loading" icon is spinning with a tab label saying
data:text/html;charset=U and falcon:start in the URL bar...nothing more.
Doesn't look very promising....

Thanks for writing!

bob prohaska