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|    Re: Chromium on Pi2    |
|    09 Jul 25 13:47:00    |
   
   From: bonnet.jerome@gmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:19:56 +0000, bp wrote:   
      
   > Just for amusement I've been trying to run the chromium browser on a   
   > Pi2. Obviously, it's slow, but it looks like the cpu isn't busy at all,   
   > mostly idle with a few percent for system processes.   
   >   
   > Right now it's stuck loading a page from the New York Times website. The   
   > Pi2 itself is responsive, but the chromium window seems totally stuck.   
   >   
   > Anybody else seeing this? I expected it to perform badly, but not this   
   > badly.   
   >   
   > I'm using the "universal" image of bookworm. Is an older image likely to   
   > be better?   
   >   
   > Thanks for reading,   
   >   
   > bob prohaska   
      
   Doesn't chromium render in GPU? And the Pi2 would have pretty basic specs/   
   low VRAM (or shared with system). So going to guess that's the reason?   
   Install a tool ("like" HTOP) but for monitoring GPU, that'll show it :)   
      
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