Switching to midori

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Switching to midori

Closed this issue 2 years ago · 6 comments

I have installed MagicMirror on a Pi Zero W using this (awesome!) installer script and everything mostly works. The CPU is under very high load though due to the Chrome browser. In an attempt to fix this I am trying to switch to midori without any success so far.

I tried to add external_browser=midori to the MagicMirror/installers/mm.sh file but it still starts using chrome. Is that the right file? There is also one in the MagicMirror_scripts repo. The same change there also did not help.

I would be glad for any hint on how to switch. Please let me know if any additional info is needed

sdetweil commented 2 years ago

awesome

Answer 1 · 2022-09-25T22:36:39.000Z

u did

export external_browser=midori

need the export cause unix doesn't pass env variables by default

Answer 2 · 2022-09-25T23:10:10.000Z

Thank you very much, that seems to help. Also to answer my own question: it looks like MagicMirror/installers/mm.sh is the file that needs to be changed

Answer 3 · 2022-09-26T01:35:12.000Z

yes correct file if using my script to setup pm2 auto start

Answer 4 · 2022-09-29T22:53:38.000Z

I ran into some more issues with Midori and added the fixes that helped me to a PR here #56

Answer 5 · 2022-09-29T22:58:44.000Z

I have merged the PR.. thank you