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From: druck <news@druck.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Chromium on Pi2
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:51:41 +0100
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On 09/07/2025 14:19, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
> Just for amusement I've been trying to run the chromium browser
> on a Pi2. Obviously, it's slow, but it looks like the cpu isn't
> busy at all, mostly idle with a few percent for system processes.

When the Pi 2 came out I did do a little web browsing on it. It wasn't 
fast then, but it did work. However that was 10 years ago, and web pages 
have got far bigger and browsers fatter and slower, which very much 
conspires against the meagre 1GHz and 1GB of the Pi 2.

The Pi 3B/3B+ is a tiny bit quicker at 1.2GHz and 1.4GHz, but still 
limited to 1GB of memory, so web browsing isn't appreciably better. Even 
with a just few simple google chart based status pages, it is very slow 
to update.

The Pi 4B with at least of 4GB is the minimum practical spec for web 
browsing. The Pi 5B with 8GB is pretty nippy, and comparable to my 10 
year old Intel laptop running Mint.

--druck