Chrome on Raspberry Pi

This tutorial will discuss using Chrome on Raspberry Pi OS.

Chrome on Raspberry Pi

We can not install chrome on Raspberry Pi OS because it is not built for it, and the hardware of a Raspberry Pi does not favor Chrome which requires strong hardware to run smoothly. Instead, we can use the chromium browser, a reduced chrome version.

There was a third-party software called ExaGear that could be used to install chrome, but it no longer works on Raspberry Pi. A Raspberry Pi is small, and a small browser should be used on it, which can run smoothly.

Raspberry Pi OS has a default browser called Chromium which is preinstalled in it and is the best browser for a Raspberry Pi because it is specifically built for it and is optimized with the memory and processor of Raspberry Pi. Chromium is open-source software and supports Google services because it is the reduced version of Chrome.

Many people also like to use the Firefox browser, which can also be installed on a Raspberry Pi as it is available as the official package repository of Raspberry Pi OS. We can use the terminal of Raspberry Pi OS to install Firefox, but before doing that, we need to update the installed packages of Raspberry Pi OS using the below commands.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

We can run the above commands one by one, and if an update is available, it will be listed, and we have to enter y to install it. After updating the installed packages, we can install the Firefox browser using the below command.

sudo apt install firefox-esr

The above command will also ask for permission, and we must enter y to install the browser. Once the browser is installed, it will be listed in the internet section of Raspberry Pi OS, as shown below.

The Firefox browser will work fine on Raspberry Pi 4 or newer, but it will lag in older versions of Raspberry Pi. So, it is better to use Chromium in older versions of Raspberry Pi.

Other browsers can be installed on a Raspberry Pi, which can be found on google.