Web browsers other than firefox that work?

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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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It need support GLES 3.0 for Librem 5

Also newer FF v132 added more aceleration via Webrender via GLES3.0+.
So the Performance and Future for Librem 5 it is on @austriancoder hands now. : )

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I’m skeptical about GLES3 improved performance. Lots of things are not needed for desktop rendering and the main advantages (including render pipeline optimization) is for more complex tasks like game rendering. Maybe I’m wrong, but better having lower expectations and better results than higher expectations with worse results.

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In the next mesa release (24.3) there will be support for multiple render targets (and some related extensions) - MRTs are needed for gles3.

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Thank you so much. :pray:

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I have other apps installed by the store which will not uninstall saying there is nothing installed by the store but yet have their respective app icon still taking up icon space… terminal shows epiphany installed, can’t remove!

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You may need to use a root shell instead:

sudo -s

Every command thereafter will be treated as root. Once you are done, execute the exit command.