Pyra without decent web browser?

[netcat]

It seems flatpak gave up on armhf but I see snap on rpi4 has the latest firefox/1.22. But I share the authors concern.

Because I hate upgrading os's (since often they are forced) I have been struggling with obsolete browsers for a long time. That's why I went through the hell of compiling mozilla from source. On macs often the browser is the hair that breaks the camels back and forces you to buy new hardware. Actually I used to run vm's specifically for browsers.

A decent sandbox package manager could keep Pyra usable much longer.

I use flatpack mostly for unfortunately necessary commercial software.

$ du -sh /var/lib/flatpak/app/*|sort -h
23M /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.github.AmatCoder.mednaffe
62M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu
137M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.telegram.desktop
241M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.mozilla.firefox
293M /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.spotify.Client
300M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.chromium.Chromium
663M /var/lib/flatpak/app/us.zoom.Zoom

 

[morrowmech]

It seems flatpak gave up on arm32 but I see snap on rpi4 has the latest firefox/1.22. But I share the authors concern.

Because I hate upgrading os's (since often they are forced) I have been struggling with obsolete browsers for a long time. That's why I went through the hell of compiling mozilla from source. On macs often the browser is the hair that breaks the camels back and forces you to buy new hardware. Actually I used to run vm's specifically for browsers.

A decent sandbox package manager could keep Pyra usable much longer.

I use flatpack mostly for unfortunately necessary commercial software.

$ du -sh /var/lib/flatpak/app/*|sort -h
23M /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.github.AmatCoder.mednaffe
62M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu
137M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.telegram.desktop
241M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.mozilla.firefox
293M /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.spotify.Client
300M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.chromium.Chromium
663M /var/lib/flatpak/app/us.zoom.Zoom

Have you considered using docker for your needs?

 

[Young Ace]

I don't want to be that guy, but what's the best browser on the Pyra? Does anyone know the latest Vivaldi that works?

 

[Letalis Sonus]

Have you considered using docker for your needs?

FYI: Linux dropped 32bit ARM virtualization support with kernel 5.7. Container frameworks tend to have a hard requirement on that.

 

[jedi23]

After the last versions of Firefox had no armhf build for Buster, the current Firefox 125.0.3 now has. (download)
They are provided by mozillateam from Ubuntu's lauchpad, but work flawless on Debian.

For Buster the Ubuntu 18.04 builds are working, for Bullseye the 20.04 ones.

 

[asimov-solensan]

Thanks for noticing.