chromium

Something I've long been meaning to benchmark, but never really got around to, is benchmarking the amount of time it takes on a Raspberry Pi to open a browser, load a page, and quit.

This is a relatively decent thing to benchmark, compared to other raw performance metrics, because it's something that probably 99% of Raspberry Pi users who use it with a GUI will do, with some frequency (well, probably loading more than one page before quitting, but still...).

So I asked on Twitter:

So... if I want to measure how long it takes to:

1 Open Chrome/Chromium
2 Load a web page

And I want to do this in Linux (Debian), and have an objective measure of that time (until the page finishes loading)... is there any way to do that?

CLI opens then sits until you quit.

I've been working on figuring out some interesting ways to use my revision A Raspberry Pi, and one of the things I'm doing with it requires it to work correctly behind a corporate proxy server. If you're in a similar situation, and need your Pi to work with a proxy server, it's simple to get set up:

You need to edit the ~/.profile file (where ~ is your home folder, e.g. /home/jeffgeerling, adding the following lines to the bottom of the file:

If you'd also like the proxy to apply when running sudo commands and when using your Pi as the root user, you need to add the same configuration to /root/.profile (this would be helpful if you need to use sudo apt-get to install or update software packages).