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For questions pertaining to the Chromium browser, its installation, configuration and troubleshooting on the Raspberry Pi. This is a synonym tag on "google-chrome", since there are no chrome builds that will run on a Pi.

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When I start up the RasPi 4, Chromium automatically opens in kiosk mode and loads the nodered dashboard 2.0 of my solar system. However, after about 20 seconds, a message "App is ready offline&...
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I'm trying to set up some signage at my business. I've used a start_chromium.sh script with other things and it has worked, but for whatever reason, when I try using it with Google Slide, it does not ...
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I have a Raspberry Pi with chilipie in kiosk mode. On the website I show, there are a couple of select inputs. I have managed to hide the cursor throughout the website but when the user clicks on a ...
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I want to open an instance of Chromium at a specific location on the screen and at a specific size (width and height). I figured this would be pretty straightforward but in all my searching I am just ...
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On my pi, Chromium always opens in the center of the screen. I discovered this when trying to open a popup at a specific location on the screen using the following javascript: window.open("some ...
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I have a Raspberry Pi 4 with Raspbian OS I would like the GUI to boot directly to a chromium web page in full screen. All the tutorials i have read seem to be out of date. I have created the autostart ...
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When trying to get Chromium going with selenium I constantly get the following error chromedriver Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/admin/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/...
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On a Raspberry Pi 3B+ (using stretch), I have a bash script that looks like this. pkill chromium-browse chromium-browser --noerrdialogs --disable-infobars --kiosk https://www.example.com --incognito ...
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I need to run the source code of Chromium(86.0.4240.197) which is in a tar.gz package. However, when I extract the package runnig tar xf chromium-86.0.4240.197.tar.gz nothing happens. . Is there ...
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I have two Raspberry Pi Zero Ws with Pimoroni HyperPixel 4 displays attached that run little dashboards in our lounge room by way of Chromium. One of the Pis had a hiccup and stopped booting so I ...
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{I believe this was asked 11 years ago, and every answer missed the point by fixating on the idea of CLONING an entire image from a smaller capacity SD card to a larger/faster one... NOT what I'm ...
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What would a suitable OS (Linux distribution) be for an old Raspberry Pi B+ (2012, 512 MB RAM)? The latest official OS comes with Chromium which doesn't work. It is also very slow. It will be running ...
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When I start the Chromium browser on my RPi it just flashes (no nav bar ever appears). Here's a gif (video) of what it does: I'm connecting via VNC. Details of My Installation Distributor ID: ...
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I'm subscribed to a weather website which shows live data using Google Maps, with an info box appearing if you hover over a data point. I have a Pi (Raspbian 8) set up to access this via Chromium and ...
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My RP4 is currently running Chromium 88.0.4324.187 on Raspbian 10. How do I find out whether an update to Chromium is available (and what version it is) without actually installing the update?
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I’ve got a new RPi zero W and I’ve install raspbian using the imager tool (32 bit) and when booted the OS works fine, all programs open etc except for web browsers. I’ve reinstalled chrome and even ...
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I have Pi3 running Raspbian Jessie that I am setting up as a digital calendar for my family. I used the instructions on this website: https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-kiosk/. Everything is working ...
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I want to make a python program controlling my browser on my Raspberry Pi Model B+ using Raspberry Pi OS, but am running into a very basic issue. When opening web.whatsapp.com on the installed ...
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My Pi 4 (8GB) has been crashing since yesterday whenever you want to watch a movie in Chromium via Netflix. However, the first five minutes of the film run through without any problems. Other websites ...
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I have a Pi 4 B, that has a Cortex-A72 ARM processor, running Raspberry PI OS. On the left we see chromium, on the right firefox ESR. As you can see, in firefox the site is displaying correctly, with ...
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Context: I am running the 32bit full Raspbian OS on the raspberry pi 4 as a desktop, the newest version. Whenever I open chromium, the default web browser, it simply opens a window. When I tried to ...
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I have some folders of bookmarks that I would like to open all at once, glance at, and close if there's no attention needed. I used to manually click each one, re-opening the folder every time and re-...
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I'm currently running on Raspbian 11 trying to set flags for chromium-browser to enable hardware acceleration. I've tried editing /etc/chromium.d/00-rpi-vars according to this solution, yet it doesn't ...
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I'm trying to find a way to exit kiosk mode or to exit a full screen chromium. So i'm running a raspberry pi 4 with raspbian and have netflix, disney+ etc working as a link on my desktop. I add the ...
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I noticed, today, that pages weren't loading in chromium, but If I pinged them in bash, using ping google.com, it went through just fine. So, I reinstalled chromium, but, now a different problem has ...
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Since the Widevine support is available for Raspbian I'm able to watch Netflix and Amazon Prime Video on the Raspberry Pi just using the Chromium Browser. I have, however, a strange behaviour when ...
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I am running raspbian on a Pi4 in desktop mode. Everything is up to date (apt update/upgrade). I want to open a web page from the command line. I have tried "chromium-browser http://localhost/...
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I want to show videos via Chromium with the Raspberry Pi (Kiosk App for a school) and want to know which Video format is best for this use case. I did some research and h264 format should be best but ...
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I have rpi 4 model b (8 gb), and I am running Kali, (32 bit). Any kind of Widevine content doesn't play, neither on Chromium, nor on Kodi, even after installing libwidevinecdm0 No luck even after ...
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So I'm putting together a prototype here and have the apps I want to run in chromium kiosk mode which makes things look nice and smooth. But I want to use only mouse and no keyboard to select things ...
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We have a kiosk Vue application running on Raspbian (Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)) / Chromium 92. For some unknown reason it seems to freeze after x hours (or days). It happens on a pi 3 and also pi ...
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I have set up a Raspberry Pi 4 to starts as kiosk mode with these settings (kiosk.sh): #!/bin/bash xset s noblank xset s off xset -dpms sed -i 's/"exited_cleanly":false/"...
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I'm using a Raspberry Pi for a Digital Signage project for university. I have a small issue with a hover hint box (I don't know the correct name) showing when Chromium plays YouTube Fullscreen. I had ...
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I've been trying to follow tutorials on enabling hardware accelerated video decoding for my Raspberry Pi 3b+, such as this one: https://lemariva.com/blog/2020/08/raspberry-pi-4-video-acceleration-...
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I manage and stream my videos with a self-hosted web application. The web application also offers DLNA based streaming. When I stream the videos via the browser (latest Raspberry PI OS and default ...
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I need to launch Chromium (or alternatively Firefox) on a raspberry PI 4 8 GB running Raspberry OS 2021-05-07 without launching xorg / xserver. Is that feasible, for example by launching it in ...
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I use RPI 3 model B and I reinstall Raspberry Pi OS for some reason. I could log in to Google and it kept logged in whenever I close and open Chromium, but it was before I reinstall raspios. However, ...
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I am setting up a "kiosk" mode display but Im having a hard time getting chromium to show properly on raspbian login. If I comment the line out, and manually start chromium, it will show. ...
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I have problems with kiosk application on Raspberry. I'm using chromium as digital signage presentation. System was working fine, until few days ago. I get crash report Error code 11. From error log, ...
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We are running Raspberry 4b and 3b as Kiosk TV. We have around 150 working system over the country. We are ''streaming'' with help of Wordpress plugin Foyer. Chromium version is latest, Chrome/88.0....
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I am trying to run my Raspberry Pi as a kiosk and users keep hitting F1 which opens Google Help. How do I disable this? For reference I am running the following on boot chromium-browser --kiosk --app=...
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I got my Raspberry Pi 4 yesterday and have already managed to uninstall the browser. I don't want to go through the kerfuffle of reinstalling everything that I deleted and since I haven't done much on ...
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I am using a Raspberry Pi 4, with 8GB of RAM. I have overclocked my Pi 4, with over_voltage=6, arm_freq=2000, and gpu_freq=750. However, I have been having a problem with running Chromium. Whenever I ...
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I am Japanese and used to use Japanese and English characters togeter. When I copy text from some program to chromium-browser in-box, it garbles. Garbles (mis-conversion) happens between some program ...
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I want to use a Raspberry Pi as kind of a kiosk display. So far: I have a Raspberry Pi 4 with Raspbian (Buster) installed. I have 3 users (root, pi and "kiosk"). The user "kiosk" ...
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I was trying to autoboot fullscreen into chromium and I improperly edited /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart with @chromium-browser --start-fullscreen https://{url}.com/ Now my pi boots into a black ...
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I am having a problem using Chromium with bluetooth. I have a new Raspberry Pi 4 with Raspbian Buster. Using VLC, or aplay at command prompt, I can hear audio through bluetooth headset. However, I ...
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I have a Raspberry Pi 4 with raspbian buster desktop installed which I am using since 1 year to consume media over internet. I am using bluetooth to connect with the speakers and everything was ...
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I tried downloading Arm Architecture Reference Manual Armv8, for Armv8-A architecture profile, which is about 8500 pages. My download succeeds when using my Intel-based laptop, Windows 10, and ...
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For a project I'm using a Raspberry Pi with ALSA. ALSA is configured and speaker-test provides me audio output. However, when I open Jitsi Meet in Chromium, there is no sound. When I open YouTube in ...
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