Took your advice and downloaded firestorm.
There are rather a lot of viewers to choose from, I have no idea how to make a choice based on some valid parameters.
Firestorm works, I can see a profile, and sound also works now as a bonus.
Firestorm 5.0.1 (52150) Dec 10 2016 19:08:56 (Firestorm-Releasex64) with OpenSimulator support
Release Notes
You are at 186.8, 85.6, 26.0 in Natoma located at sim10117.agni.lindenlab.com (216.82.48.183:13008)
SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Natoma/187/86/26
(global coordinates 256699.0, 256342.0, 26.0)
Second Life Server 17.04.03.325159
Release Notes
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz (2668 MHz)
Memory: 5955 MB
OS Version: Linux 4.10.0-20-generic #22-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 20 09:22:42 UTC 2017 x86_64
Graphics Card Vendor: X.Org
Graphics Card: Gallium 0.4 on AMD CYPRESS (DRM 2.49.0 / 4.10.0-20-generic, LLVM 4.0.0)
OpenGL Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.3
RestrainedLove API: (disabled)
libcurl Version: libcurl/7.47.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1i zlib/1.2.8
J2C Decoder Version: KDU v7.8
Audio Driver Version: FMOD Ex 4.44.61
LLCEFLib/CEF Version: 1.5.3-(CEF-OSX-3.2171.2069-32)
LibVLC Version: 2.2.3
Voice Server Version: Vivox 3.2.0002.10426
Settings mode: Firestorm
Viewer Skin: Firestorm (Grey)
Font Used: Deja Vu (96 dpi)
Font Size Adjustment: 0 pt
UI Scaling: 1
Draw distance: 96 m
Bandwidth: 500 kbit/s
LOD factor: 2
Render quality: Medium-Low (2/7)
Advanced Lighting Model: No
Texture memory: 768 MB (1)
VFS (cache) creation time (UTC): 2017-4-30T8:53:14
Built with GCC version 40702
Packets Lost: 15/4804 (0.3%)
April 30 2017 01:58:49 SLT