Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: Nathan David <n02531...@gmail.com> > Sent: Monday, September 2, 2024 6:50 PM > To: arm@lists.opensuse.org > Subject: Question Regarding Web Browsers > > > Greetings! > > I've been a user of openSUSE (Tumbleweed) ARM for a bit of time and I've been > enjoying it so far. It's incredibly fast, stable, and easy to deploy. I > have the KDE > variant running on an RK3288 Chromebook of mine and it runs very well.
Good to hear! > > I've recently noticed that the Falkon (Qt WebEngine-based) web browser was > removed from the openSUSE ARM repositories (as I recall using it at one point > previously) and that Chromium also doesn't seem to exist at all on the repos. Both are only built for aarch64 as they fail to build on armv7 and nobody step up to maintain it for armv7. > > The Firefox build appears to also be stuck on version 95. From what I can > tell, this > build of Firefox is also one of the older builds with the bug (that was fixed > in > newer builds) that makes Webrender not work with 'renderonly' GPUs (e.g. Mali > GPUs with Panfrost) so everything is software rendered as well. Same issue for Firefox, it fails to build for armv7 (OOM afaics). > I was wondering if there are any plans to potentially upgrade the Firefox > build > sometime in future as well as any plans to bring Chromium and bring back > Falkon > to the repositories. I tried to see if any builds of Firefox/Chromium/Falkon > for 32- > bit ARM are available on Flatpak, but it looks like none are available. > > Just in case there might be such in existence, are there any potential > repositories > that aren't added in the default openSUSE install archives that may already > have > one of those web browsers? > > Any help would greatly be appreciated and thank you in advance. I have no immediate solution, sorry. The best bet would be on Firefox if we manage to make it build with less RAM. Cheers, Guillaume
