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

[John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost>]

> 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