Given that’s a core activity when web browsing, it’s certainly a sticking point, but at least there’s various workarounds to achieve first-rate video streaming. To recap, video streaming with Chromium on the RPI4 is disappointing. I gave my opinion on video streaming in Chromium in my previous week’s blog. A big improvement compared to its predecessors. I did some real-life activities with Chromium on the RPI4 such as internet shopping, reading email via Gmail, accessing Discord servers, and more besides. But you’ll probably want to run a different web browser if you’ve got the 1GB model. Even with lots of tabs open, my 4GB RAM model didn’t run into any memory problems. With a few tabs and light web browsing, ps_mem reports Chromium is using almost 1GB of RAM. Autocomplete will reduce the number of characters you need to type, or just use a shorter name for the alias.Ĭhromium is a memory hog of course, but that applies on my Arch Linux box.
When you want to clean the cache, just run clean-chromium-cache. One way is to create an alias in ~/.bashrc along the lines ofĪlias clean-chromium-cache=”rm -Rf ~/.cache/chromium/Default/Cache” I find that it’s worth wiping the browser cache periodically. There’s lots of options you can configure besides turning off Smooth Scrolling, available in chrome://flags. But turning off Smooth Scrolling eliminated the rippling effect and gave a better experience. It’s meant to animate smoothly when scrolling page content. Scrolling up and down web pages in Chromium is not particularly smooth with a weird rippling effect evident. It suffers on web sites heavily laden with JavaScript. But it’s still sufficiently nimble for light to moderate web browsing. Rendering web pages is noticeably slower on the RPI4 than a less well-specced Chromebook running GalliumOS. This release came out in 23 April 2019, and has been superseded by, ,, and, so we’re missing out on a fair few improvements such as native lazy loading.Ĭhromium starts up quickly on the RPI4, and it’s reasonably quick to navigate. ChromiumĪt the time of writing, the official build built on Raspbian is Version. On Raspbian, there’s a single web browser that’s officially supported.
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