On 04/12/2019 02:03, bob prohaska wrote:
> Now that it's been out for a while, does anybody have a
> comparision of the Pi4 to the Pi3 as a platform for web
> browsers like chromium, firefox and any others that come
> to mind?
>
> I'm using a Pi3 as a workstation and it's entirely satisfactory
> except for the browser performance. Firefox-esr is painfully
> slow, chromium is much faster but only marginally stable, crashing
> the whole machine on ssec.wisc.edu when looking at Goes West images.
> Occastionally it also locks up on Google Maps, but not as often.
>
> Right now the machine is running Stretch, current as of today.
> There's an 8GB USB flash device for swap but not much is used,
> typically no more than a few hundred megs.
>
> I don't really want another computer, but better browser
> performance would be a real temptation.
>
> Thanks for reading, and any insights,
>
> bob prohaska
>

On RPi4 4G in July.

Chromium browsing was ok apart from video.

Video was absolutely dire, unusable.

Chromium wasn't supporting gpu hardware acceleration.

I posted about it back on 5-6 July with the output of chrome://gpu

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