Re: Will Firefox run on the PI and how stable is it?

●Subject: Re: Will Firefox run on the PI and how stable is it? ●From: John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost> ●Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 18:12:29 +0000 (UTC)

FWIW, I recently installed Firefox 40.0 on my amd64 system. In the past 24 hours, it has crashed twice. (Once while scrolling through a long page, once overnight while I was sleeping and nothing was happening!)

I have not had any time to investigate further, but I might suggest that 40.0 has "stability issues". :)

Web sites and browsers together have stability issues. Too many require tons of Javascript that runs continuously (and FireFox is apparently not smart enough to stop Javascript in non-active windows) and continuously consume memory until all memory is gone.

You should try Firefox with your bot, but check to see how much Javascript is loaded by whatever page the bot needs to visit, or if you even need Javascript.


John

●References: ●Will Firefox run on the PI and how stable is it? ●From: Ottavio Caruso ●Re: Will Firefox run on the PI and how stable is it? ●From: Ryo ONODERA ●Re: Will Firefox run on the PI and how stable is it? ●From: Paul Goyette

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