> I also tried to use Firefox for a while out of a vague objection to Google and Chromium's browser hegemony; it was clearly slower than Chromium at just about

> I also tried to use Firefox for a while out of a vague objection to Google and Chromium's browser hegemony; it was clearly slower than Chromium at just about everything, though, and it would regularly lock up the Pi, forcing a hard reboot. There's absolutely no point to continue past this point. No computer made in 1990 or later has any excuse to completely lock up or crash unless there's a real hardware fault. If my early '90s Macintosh LC III+ with 36 megs of memory running NetBSD can compile Perl in nine days without crashing, then why should a modern computer running a supposedly mature OS be crashable? On the other hand, a well known issue with older Raspberry Pis is the fact that using their wifi for large amounts of data transfer often caused issues. Most of the time wifi would just die, but sometimes the whole machine would lock up. It'd have been nice if the author had tried even just a little to narrow down the issue rather than just indirectly blaming Firefox. Something crashes? The first thing is to try a different OS. Still happens? Return the hardware.