And now that I got a spare WiFi dongle, this Raspberry Pi is actually doing its job. I ended up using Midori 7.0 instead of Firefox – it goes easier on resources of which this platform doesn’t have too many. Even starting this browser takes close to a minute.
Yet while Midori browser itself it quite outdated (the vendor decided to develop a Chromium fork instead), it uses webkit2gtk and that one is recent enough to run modern JavaScript code without any trouble whatsoever.
The biggest challenge was getting all hardware to work. The WiFi dongle required a custom kernel module which turned out to be rather simple – thanks to some people who forked Realtek’s original drivers and patched them up for newer Linux kernels.
But automating the system, making sure that it displays a single application window in fullscreen mode on boot – that was fairly trivial. I didn’t even need to connect any input devices while setting this up. Quite a breeze after having to deal with Android before.
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