However, the taskbar is the fastest way to open the web browser. You can also find the web browser through the start menu. It is easy to open the web browser through the Raspbian desktop.Īll you need to do is click the globe icon that is located on the taskbar. To launch the web browser, all you need to do is enter the following command. Such as being able to switch it to kiosk mode.ġ. You can pass in flags that allow you to control the behavior of the web browser. There are a variety of advantages to using the terminal. There are two different ways that you can launch the Chromium web browser on your Raspberry Pi. This build of Chromium has special optimizations for the Raspberry Pi compiled into it. This will install the version of the web browser that is provided from the Raspberry Pi OS repository. To install the browser, you need to run the following command on your Raspberry Pi. With everything up to date, we can now install the Chromium web browser. To run a full upgrade, you can use the following command. Next, we want to upgrade all of the packages we already have installed. To update the package list, you will need to use the command below. Before we can install the Chrome web browser, we need first to update the package list. The code repository for Chromium weighs in at over 10gb, so the time needed to download it would have taken considerable time.ġ. This saves us what would have been a fairly long compilation time. Luckily for us, Chromium is available through the Raspberry Pi OS repository. In this section, we will walk you through the steps to installing the Chromium web browser on your Raspberry Pi. Installing the Chromium Browser on the Raspberry Pi Equipment Listīelow is the list of equipment that we used to install the Chromium web browser on our Raspberry Pi. Please note that Chromium is included as the default web browser in the desktop version of Raspberry Pi OS stretch and later. Sadly this means you will not be able to view streaming services like Netflix or Amazon Prime on your Raspberry Pi using the Chromium web browser. These features are the proprietary libraries used for digital rights management.
However, it is missing out on some functionality that is not allowed to be included with the open-source version. For the most part, it features the same functionality as Chrome. The Chromium web browser is the open-source version of Chrome. To get around this, we can use the open-source version of Chrome on our Raspberry Pi called Chromium.
There are no builds of the Chrome web browser for any ARM-based desktop except for the Chromebooks, which unfortunately won’t support the Pi’s hardware. Chrome, one of the most popular web browsers in the world, is sadly not supported on the Raspberry Pi’s hardware.
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