Librem5 usa recent firefox-esr update will not open at all, I only used as back-up, I mainly used falcon now I can’t view pure OS forums using that because just today notification says browser not supported, need suggestions on new browser more or less secure suggestions please.
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Weird, i has been tested Firefox Engine versions for Purism Forum compatibilities and i can confirm que Gecko ESR 91+ still compatible with Purism Forum. Sound like a Firefox-Malvare autoenabled on Firefox to force you upgrading…
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Falcon on desktop on Mabox linux works fine here however the L5 just had problems here this morning a couple hrs ago. Why would Falkon change with the forum now? nothing downloaded today or change except for trying firefox again and there is something wrong with its new Fire Fox version.
I need something to work on this forum on the L5.
How do I use terminal to install Brave Browser… just sudo apt install brave?
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I never used Brave i dont know howto.
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FirefoxESR 128 is installed on my device and is also much faster than 115 or 102 (I don’t know about 91). So it’s more a “you” issue rather than a Firefox-L5 issue in general. With “you” I mean something only on your device that seems not to work.
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Here is a link for Debian install of Librewolf…
Would this work on the L5?
sorry forgot link:
Or is there any alternative in FlatPak?
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Any Gecko based browser still not ready for L5, as Gecko it a huge huge big so it need a least GLES 3.0 to work decent.
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GNOME Web/Epiphany.
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Yes Epiphany it is the native Browser for Librem 5. However it need GPU GLES 3.0 for Engine and Framework. So GLES 3.0 is critical for Librem 5 Performance.
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@spring2 wants a suggestion for an alternative web browser that reliably works, regardless of how performant it is. I have no other suggestions outside of Firefox ESR for ARM64.
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I installed LibreWolf from a FlatPak. Generally works fine, and I don’t have any serious issues. I do change the Librem display zoom to 150% (from the default 200%); that helps pages fit on the screen right, since the FlatPak I got doesn’t really know it’s on a phone screen.
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To fix your Firefox install see Firefox "failed to read config file" - #13 by linmob
For further mobile-friendly web-browsing options see LinuxPhoneApps.org
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I took a chance and installed Librewolf by following instructions here : Installation on Debian based systems – LibreWolf
sudo apt update && sudo apt install extrepo -y
sudo extrepo enable librewolf
sudo apt update && sudo apt install librewolf -y
after install in terminal was done I looked at the files and noticed an arm64
sooo I figured it is in there it might work and fired Librewolf up with terminal command Librewolf (ENTER)
It works but one might want to dig deeper as a renderer file was not found
and tried to sub another ... but then it started up and acted ok through a few web pages
and even youtube... it seems ok... like to know if one of you may have ideas about getting a proper renderer?
```To Remove files:
sudo rm -f \
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/librewolf.sources \
/etc/apt/keyrings/librewolf.gpg \
/etc/apt/preferences.d/librewolf.pref \
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/home_bgstack15_aftermozilla.sources \
/etc/apt/keyrings/home_bgstack15_aftermozilla.gpg \
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/librewolf.list \
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/librewolf.gpg \
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:bgstack15:aftermozilla.list \
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_bgstack15_aftermozilla.gpg
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There is also a appimage and flatpak on other pages for you to view.
Other Linux Installation – LibreWolf BE SURE to read… may consume memory?
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Brave is supported on 64-bit AMD/Intel (amd64 / x86_64) and ARM (arm64 / aarch64) architectures. See our full [system requirements] https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021357112-What-are-the-system-requirements-to-install-Brave- for minimum OS versions.
Debian, Ubuntu, Mint
sudo apt install curl
sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install brave-browser
```Also Nightly, see that topic
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OK, reporting on Librewolf it did install with an app icon in the necessary/usual place for it, I just used the Icon and it did start after 5 seconds. Starting with the Icon I do not see the renderer problem but still see in Terminal Startup. Upper left of startup scree has an import bookmarks and the center has duckduckgo search entry … one of my usual web sites I go to was searched and loaded noticably faster than others browsers.
At the moment I’m going to use as backup.
Oh yah, no problem with working with this forum!! Yay!
Can someone tell me how to check memory and speed usage to see if there is slowdown of system etc.?
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can this be done in htop?
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Usage app in the App Grid, the icon looks like a heartbeat monitor.
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Thanks FrankFlawless
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Need some more help… since gnome-web or epiphany does not perform well for me, how to delete w/icon mean both app and icon? It shows as epiphany in terminal but cannot “remove or purge”.
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