Hello,

I haven't used my Slackware ARM installation on an asus chromebook in a while. I decided to give it a shot again and update it to latest current version.
I noticed Firefox is gone now. Tried using Falkon and Konqueror, but they don't seem to be opening any websites and do not give any error messages in the process. The only thing I was able to use was links but I really would prefer a GUI browser...
Does Slackware ARM ship with any alternative browser I couldn't find or is there anything available I could install?

Regards,
Alex

If you run them from a shell you'll see the crash output relating to seccomp. The problem is with qt - the glibc-2.33 sandbox patches seem to be incomplete for 32bit - Falkon and Konqueror crash on Slackware x86 too. We've had a look but can't find patches for gaps in coverage.
If anybody has patches for them let us know.

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Thanks for that answer. Anything I can use instead? Did you try to build any other browser?

You could try out the -g switch for links:

links -g

Will open a minimal graphical window within Xorg. A mouse can be used and there is a scrollbar.

Other than that, I recommend a similarly basic browser called "surf", from suckless.org. It works well for systems with limited resources. SlackBuilds.org has a slackbuild for it, but at version 2.0. The most recent release is 2.1 in 2021.

There is a slackbuild here, for version 2.1 on SlackBuilds.org git.

https://surf.suckless.org/

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Thanks for the suggestion mralk3, but this is exactly what I want to avoid.

I managed to run Falkon without sandboxing using the command:

Now this seems unsafe, but how unsafe exactly I am really not sure.

EDIT:
This works too, but is probably also unsafe:

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Shot in the dark... What about the Brave open-source browser? There's a SlackBuild for it which is a re-packaged binary. Brave is based on Chromium and boasts more features than other browsers, so brave.com tells me.

The SlackBuild you linked to is for x86_64. The re-packaged binary doesn't work on ARM or ARM64.

Another option that could be interesting is AlienBOB's ungoogled chromium.

I plan to check it out today and see if I can get it built on Aarch64.

FWIW, I downloaded Vivaldi for arm and installed it on m Pi-3 running current. I run the Pi headless, and wanted a way to directly download the kernel packages form the sarpi site without going through my main system.

Vivaldi took some getting use to, and I can not say anything about how safe it is, but it works on current on my Pi.

If you want to try it, DuckDuckgo 'vivaldi on arm'.

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As I understand the problem with Falkon and Konqueror is that they are based on chromium, so neither Brave nor "ungoogled" Chromium would work for the time being.

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Good. Then it's not an option in any event. "Brave is only supported on 64-bit AMD/Intel architectures (amd64 / x86_64)."

Well, after viewing the source of brave, it has an Android version. This means it could be built ARM to a certain extent, and ARM64 I think too.

It has a massive list of bug reports and so I don't think I would build from source. Reason being it means a lot of rebuilds as bugs and vulns are fixed. Not to mention you would be on your own since ARM isn't officially supported.

Being 'on your own' when compiling for Slackware ARM is all too familiar territory for me. Unless it's something I need or am interested in I'd rather not waste time trying to make it happen. The Brave GitHub page has some interesting ARM build options and potential, but I'm not motivated enough to try any of it.

a cron script will get them when they're there, you need to delete old ones

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Sorry to say Alienbobs slackbuild wont work for ARM, you´ll have to modify it to work for you (This is what i had to do)
As i dont know what ARM processor you are using, and guessing its not Armv7 CPU as you are said Aarch64, so i am guessing in that case its Armv8 CPU?
So you´ll have to change my build script slightly and maybe change the compiler flags to fit it for Aarch64.
How-ever if you have a ARMv7 CPU you might be able to use my precompiled binaries?

But i would recommend you to try my slackbuilds form my github.
You´ll find some nifty information how-to get chromium/Chromium-ungoogles with Widewine for ARM/Aarch64 too.
You´ll find buildscripts for llvm 13.0.1-rc3 (Won´t work with Slackware ARM current´s llvm-13.0.0 packages due to the fact it´s missing lld),
how-to patch glibc with SHT_RELR and TLS with 64-byte for widevine (Will have to be extracted form chromeOS image).
Yes, same goes for both ARM and Aarch64.
If you run in to any issues, please feel free to ask and i´ll try to help you if i can.

Hope this helps you on your way.

BTW, i´am compiling chromium-ungoogled-97.0.4692.99 as we speak, will upload it to my github as soon as its done.

Edit:
chromium-ungoogled-97.0.4692.99 binaries and package for Slackware Armv7 is uploaded to my git hub.

Best regards:
Minime

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Updated Chromium-ungoogled 98.0.4758.80 package for Slackware Armv7 this evening, sorry for the delay, been away from home the hole week.
Enjoy

Best regards:
Minime

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