[Buildroot] Is there an official browser patch for Buildroot?

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 01/04/2024 20:00, Patricia Holden wrote:
> I found a few topics online about a patch for chromium, but they are dated 2018 
> or older.  Is there an official patch to add the chromium-browser as a package 
> for Buildroot?  Or how about "minibrowser", which I have also seen topics in an 
> online search?

  I don't think there has ever been an attempt to attempt chromium itself, but 
there was an attempt at patches for Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). That's 
not a browser, however, just a browser engine. And anyway it turned out that 
Chromium (and firefox) are way too complicated with too many vendored 
dependencies and crazy buildsystems.

  There are a bunch of alternative browser engines: qt5webengine, qt5webkit, 
webkitgtk, wpewebkit.

  There are also a few simple "frontends" for these, that basically render a 
single webpage and then allow you to browse (so no things like history, 
bookmarks, plugins, etc.): qt-webkit-kiosk, qt5webview; and a more complete 
browser: midori.

  Finally, there's also the text-mode browser links, but I don't suppose that 
that is what you're looking for.


  Regards,
  Arnout

> 
> Thanks!
> Pat Holden, NK Labs
> 
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