It seems the Puffin browser is a good lightweight browser for the Raspberry Pi, but it’s unclear if the debian package they offer can be installed on the Vero V. Will it work? And if not, is there an alternative short of Chromium or Firefox (6 or 8 years ago there was talk of an Ocelot browser for OSMC, but it looks like it never happened).
I planned Ocelot a long time ago, but it didn’t make sense in the long term.
Kodi was going to get a web browser but that still has not come to fruition yet.
Cc @joakim_s
Hi @Tim02130
Well, it’s been a while since i threaded these waters. In short, web browsing today is synonymous with some video decoding. Which I lack the skills to implement in either hw platform for osmc, Wayland has come someways since I looked at it last, there might be some "renewal of the old xwin-chromium addon. But right now, I’m rather deep into a virtual display solution on the windows platform, then somewhat of the OSMC “spear head” for moonlight-embeded on VERO-platform add to that a few personal dev. projects for my autistic kid.
I’m open to help get the ball rolling again, might even take on more then I can chew as usual. I mean, I would love to have a real “fully accelerated” desktop, on my Vero4->5, I think the pi would be easier. But what do I know…
There’s a build of libraelec I use on old mac mini2007 that has brave browser implemented… Think via docker not sure
oh true, but a macmini 2007-ish (Intel GMA 950 graphics since it used a Core 2 CPU), even if it’s rubbish today, had two rather GLOBAL companies supporting it, and in order for one to sell to the other there had to be official documentation.
I’m sorry to say that the SoC market doesn’t enjoy the same privileges.
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