What is the best web browser for Raspberry Pi 4 ARM64?

[kreaninw]

I am using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 64-bit on my Raspberry Pi 4 8GB.

I want:
- Hardware video acceleration/hardware video decode on YouTube.
- DRM support for Netflix, Disney+, Spotify, etc.

What I still don't know:
- I don't know whether Firefox supports HWA for YouTube video decode.
- I don't know whether Firefox supports DRM as everyone seems to focus on Chromium when it comes to DRM on the Pi.
- I don't use Firefox, in fact, I hate it. And I don't want to use Chromium either, I would rather use Vivaldi. But I don't know whether Vivaldi supports HWA for YouTube video decode and DRM.

What I found:
- Vivaldi setup: https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/instal ... pberry-pi/
- How to enable DRM on Chromium (32-bit): https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-os-64-bit

Any advice is appreciated.

[ejolson]

- I don't use Firefox, in fact, I hate it. And I don't want to use Chromium either, I would rather use Vivaldi. But I don't know whether Vivaldi supports HWA for YouTube video decode and DRM.

In my experience trying to find the best of anything never works out. What one really needs is a web browser which is good enough. For people who want to watch YouTube, it's possible the only browser good enough is the custom version of Chromium in 32-bit Raspberry Pi OS. If watching TV is not a priority than almost any browser is good enough.

[B.Goode]

I am using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 64-bit on my Raspberry Pi 4 8GB.

I want:
- Hardware video acceleration/hardware video decode on YouTube.
- DRM support for Netflix, Disney+, Spotify, etc.

[ ... ]

Any advice is appreciated.

From the keyboard of a Canonical/Ubuntu Developer -

https://ubuntuforums.org/ and https://askubuntu.com/ are good places to ask about things like this.

[pierro78]

I noticed the M106 build of thorium ( https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Special/releases ) seems to run quite well ... and it has google sync !
(I think I tried M102 or M103 before and it had a minor issue playing youtube videos : some control buttons would not appear ... this is fixed now ... )

it doesn t look like it has hardware acceleration when playing youtube videos though ... the raspbian chromium browser does have it however ... (ps : I am on raspbian ... I didn't check if thorium has hardware acceleration on ubuntu ...)

[blade777]

for me4 it`s firefox....

[blade777]

chromium best for hardware acceleration and other things... but i used netscape and alike chromium when configurd to your choice will do better but i am old school...android lives whih google does it not..hmm it uses chromim by default ..look up "java"....