Chrome Browser on 64bit PC Hardware

mrc00l88 · December 22, 2018 at 6:12 PM

I am trying to move from windows for my media PC upon getting a 4K tv (scaling sucks) - but the thing holding me back is web browsing. I plan to run LibreELEC on a 64bit PC hardware, which upon research using the Leia 9.0 beta I can install Google Chrome (not sure if there is any other Browser available).

Before I wipe out my windows machines and go this route, can anyone confirm with 64bit PC that the Chrome browser (or if another browser is out there) will allow me to view any website I go to.. stream YouTube, any embedded flash stream websites, espn.com, cbs.com, dailymotion, vimeo, Netflix, etc?

For instance, I watch sports through espn.com and they have an embedded web player, some of the 4k video websites embed flash, etc - can I presume that everything will play through Chrome just as on a regular PC windows OS - or does this Chrome on LibreELEC have limitations with plugins, flash players, etc?Open to other suggestions to browse the web through LibreELEC if they are out there besides Chrome.

Thank you

**Klojum** · December 22, 2018 at 8:22 PM Official Post

There used to be a Chromium addon available for Generic machines only, it's probably still somewhere. But it wasn't flawless on Nvidia or AMD gpu's.

**CvH** · December 22, 2018 at 10:51 PM Official Post

Chrome has the typical linux limitations so you won't get more then HD at Netflix and there is no proper HW acceleration for Chrome at Linux.

Its there, it works but don't expect that it works like at windows its a general Linux problem

mrc00l88 · December 23, 2018 at 12:22 AM

Will embedded flash videos play? That I guess is the big one.

Appreciate your responses

**CvH** · December 23, 2018 at 11:15 AM Official Post

yes this works, YT works too

depending at your sound hw you might need to adjust some settings or it won't play anything at YT (everybody loves drm)

mrc00l88 · December 23, 2018 at 12:31 PM

Thank you, will give it a whirl.

Cheers

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