Re: Chromium on Pi2

On Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:19:56 +0000, bp 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.
 
Right now it's stuck loading a page from the New York Times website. The
Pi2 itself is responsive, but the chromium window seems totally stuck.
 
Anybody else seeing this? I expected it to perform badly, but not this
badly.
 
I'm using the "universal" image of bookworm. Is an older image likely to
be better?
 
Thanks for reading,
 
bob prohaska

Doesn't chromium render in GPU? And the Pi2 would have pretty basic specs/
low VRAM (or shared with system). So going to guess that's the reason?
Install a tool ("like" HTOP) but for monitoring GPU, that'll show it :)