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

[Paul Goyette <paul%vps1.whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, Ryo ONODERA wrote:

> Hi,
>
> From: Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost>, Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 10:04:59 +0100
>
> > I am thinking of investing in a Raspberry PI (or similar device). I
> > absolutely need to be able to run Firefox because I need a certain
> > extension to run headless 24/7 (it's a bot).
> >
> > How stable is  Firefox on the PI? I need to be able to run Firefox
> > 24/7 without crashes.
> >
> > Alternatively which other super cheap device would you recommend that
> > run Netbsd smoothly?
>
> I am working on www/firefox (40.0) on evbearmv7hf now.
> However another task blocks its progress...

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".   :)


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