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Switch to a supported browser

Open matthewruzzi opened this issue 2 years ago • 6 comments

Can you switch from aurora (which is discontinued and doesn't properly support many modern sites) to a newer browser that is still supported?

matthewruzzi avatar May 08 '23 04:05 matthewruzzi

It'd need to be a browser that supports QT Embedded (IIRC PINN still uses an older version of QT Embedded?), and is able to run in the very cut-down (BuildRoot) Linux environment used by PINN. Do you have any suggestions?

lurch avatar May 08 '23 10:05 lurch

The Endorphin web browser is a fork of aurora which is still in development. The Falkon browser is another browser that is based on qt. I don't really know how qt embedded works so I don't know if either of them would actually work.

matthewruzzi avatar May 08 '23 19:05 matthewruzzi

The Endorphin web browser is a fork of aurora which is still in development.

Haha, one of the names at the bottom of https://endorphinbrowser.github.io/ looks familiar :joy: I've not contributed directly to Endorphin, but I did contribute to Arora a long time ago.

lurch avatar May 08 '23 21:05 lurch

Would it be possible to use Falkon browser? It looks like it is a lot more up to date.

matthewruzzi avatar May 09 '23 04:05 matthewruzzi

Just out of curiosity, why are you so reliant on the web-browser built into PINN? Perhaps one of the "kiosk mode" OSes for Raspberry Pi would suit your needs better?

lurch avatar May 09 '23 10:05 lurch

Just out of curiosity, why are you so reliant on the web-browser built into PINN? Perhaps one of the "kiosk mode" OSes for Raspberry Pi would suit your needs better?

My best guess is that the op needs to upload the logs from PINN (which are stored in /tmp/debug) to a external website. However, the default browser (as of right now) doesn't load websites properly (just plain html, no css and probably no javascript either)

TheUnknownHack3r avatar Sep 23 '23 18:09 TheUnknownHack3r