Flow Browser Preview on the Raspberry Pi 400 #PiDay #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi @FlowBrowser
Ekioh is making a Flow web browser preview available for public download for the first time. Flow has a fast, modern, architecture that doesn’t share its layout engine with any other browser.
While able to render most websites well, many perfectly, Flow still has some way to go. Each month more pages work, as more JavaScript APIs are added or additional CSS functionality created.
We have chosen to release on just one platform initially, and there are a couple of reasons why. The Raspberry Pi’s hardware is largely fixed – you can’t swap the CPU or GPU. Variations in hardware could cause us to get distracted by issues that really shouldn’t be a priority right now.
Secondly, the Raspberry Pi 400 has very similar performance to many set-top box chips, so a release that demonstrates Flow’s animation performance on embedded hardware is more useful than on a PC where all browsers can easily get 60fps.
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