Browser for Pocketbook 618 in 2025?

lalifunziy · 03-02-2025, 05:32 AM

After I learned you could download 3rd party applications, I needed to find a browser for my Pocketbook 618, because the already downloaded one pretty much sucks. But after a lot of searching, I didn't find any working ones, and all of them were 10-15 years old! There were 3 browsers listed on this page — https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Poc...oogle_vignette , but after trying to download the first one, I learned applications for a 10-year-old model don't work with new ones.

So, is there any 3rd party browser for Pocketbook?

Soupborsh · 03-10-2025, 04:08 PM

Hello, I have PB618 and I am also interested in a better browser. At least I need it to support more websites and an ad blocker. Extensions would be great but I am not sure if PB618 can handle it.

I wonder if normal linux browser can be launched for example from Alpine Linux chroot that renders to framebuffer(maybe Xorg with fb backed) or maybe specific browser designed to work with fb like this https://github.com/femelo/framebuffer-browser. I failed to build it.

It would be great to have normal GNU/Linux distro such as Alpine here to install software. I wanted to port mainline U-Boot and Linux to it's B288 SoC but there is no documentation and a lot of proprietary binaries used, so it is hard.

03-02-2025, 05:32 AM	#1
lalifunziy Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2025 Device: Pocketbook 618 (Touch Lux 4)	Browser for Pocketbook 618 in 2025? After I learned you could download 3rd party applications, I needed to find a browser for my Pocketbook 618, because the already downloaded one pretty much sucks. But after a lot of searching, I didn't find any working ones, and all of them were 10-15 years old! There were 3 browsers listed on this page — https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Poc...oogle_vignette , but after trying to download the first one, I learned applications for a 10-year-old model don't work with new ones. So, is there any 3rd party browser for Pocketbook?

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03-10-2025, 04:08 PM	#2
Soupborsh Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2024 Device: PB618	Hello, I have PB618 and I am also interested in a better browser. At least I need it to support more websites and an ad blocker. Extensions would be great but I am not sure if PB618 can handle it. I wonder if normal linux browser can be launched for example from Alpine Linux chroot that renders to framebuffer(maybe Xorg with fb backed) or maybe specific browser designed to work with fb like this https://github.com/femelo/framebuffer-browser. I failed to build it. It would be great to have normal GNU/Linux distro such as Alpine here to install software. I wanted to port mainline U-Boot and Linux to it's B288 SoC but there is no documentation and a lot of proprietary binaries used, so it is hard.