PI Zero Starter kit The Hardware on this system lacks support for NEON SIMD extensions”

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Hi I have just setup a new starter kit.

I continually get “The Hardware on this system lacks support NEON SIMD extensions”

I have updated the software and can’t run chromium (above error message) and firefox (firefox is not supported on PI Zero W)

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Hi there @Glenn304716 and welcome to the forums, glad to have you here.

While I’ve not run into this specific error message before, I doubt you would be able to get either chromium or firefox to run on a Pi Zero W.

The Pi Zero W has only 512MB of RAM, while both Chromium and Firefox require at least 1GB to work (and they won’t work well).

You could try something even more lightweight like Pale Moon:

echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/stevenpusser/Raspbian_11/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:stevenpusser.list
curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:stevenpusser/Raspbian_11/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_stevenpusser.gpg > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install palemoon

Or luakit:

sudo apt-get install luakit
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Thanks Jane, I installed luakit and its working, albeit very slowly so am upgrading to a Pi 5 4g.

I appreciate the advice.

Glenn

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