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

[manlyphall <manlyphall%manlymail.net@localhost>]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 14:23:37 +0100
Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:

Surf web browser and others like Vimb2 work really well on systems with low memory resources. 

http://surf.suckless.org/

Surf is not in Pkgsrc yet. You can find it in the WIP.

Pkgsrc does have all the dependencies needed to build and run Surf. If you browse the surf source code you can even select the terminal emulator used for downloading files via wget. Surf is easy to build.

Surf, and others like it, do take some getting used to. But they provide a good modern browsing experience. I have recently used Surf on a PII Sony Vaio with less then 256mb of ram. It could browse Amazon or Ebay fine. 

> On 13 August 2015 at 13:50, Jun Ebihara <jun%soum.co.jp@localhost> wrote:
> > From: Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost>
> > Subject: Will Firefox run on the PI and how stable is it?
> > Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 10:04:59 +0100
> >
> >> How stable is  Firefox on the PI? I need to be able to run Firefox
> >> 24/7 without crashes.
> >
> > Firefox37 package binary for earmv7hf demonstration.
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jun/allwinner/earmv7hf/firefox-37.0.2nb1.tgz
> >
> > It still runs on earmv7hf.But should make more newer one.
> 
> 
> Thanks Jun.
> 
> Have you or anybody else tested it and how stable is it? I've been
> told Firefox is not stable on the PI.
> 
> --
> Ottavio
> 


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