Raspberry PI 3 web browser keeps closing on it's own

[Red Squirrel]

Pretty much as title. I have two Raspberry PI's to drive the two side monitors and one of them I typically leave a web browser up with stuff that I'm monitoring, hvac control, etc... But it always shuts off on it's own. It used to do it only once a week but now it's multiple times a day. Is there any way to stop it from doing that? There's no title bar in that browser so no way to check version, but when I hover over the icon it's called Epiphany. Not finding much on Google, I don't imagine it's a very well known browser.

 

[Ken g6]

while true ; do epiphany ; done

Crude but effective.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Hmm that could actually kinda work, is there a way I can tell it to open specific tabs and to make the window a certain size and at a certain position?

That got me thinking, I may be able to do the same with synergy, though that app works a bit differently as when you type the command it goes back to command prompt, but it's still running in the background. I have this other issue where Synergy randomly dies.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Now I'm having an other issue, when I open it, I can't move it manually, it just opens wherever. Can't resize, can't move, can't do anything. At one point it would not even let me switch tabs, I keep having to reboot until this thing works. Is there a way to make this work 100% of the time? Or is there a way to get Firefox on the RPI?

 

[Ken g6]

wmctrl can resize windows, if you have it available. But it sounds like your OS is messed up! Maybe you should try reinstalling it first.

 

[sn8ke]

Yes of course you can use Firefox or Chromium if you want. Which OS is on there? Firefox ESR should be in the repo. I know both are in the Raspian repos.
Epiphany is deprecated, new versions have been known as Web for a few years https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web/

 

[Red Squirrel]

Tried apt-get install firefox and there was nothing unless there's some 3rd party repo I have to add. OS is Raspbian.

 

[sn8ke]

Tried apt-get install firefox and there was nothing unless there's some 3rd party repo I have to add. OS is Raspbian.

You'll have to specify -ESR, but it's there. I checked before I posted to make sure it's in the main repo.

~ $ apt search firefox
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done

firefox-esr/stable 45.2.0esr-1~deb8u1 armhf
  Mozilla Firefox web browser - Extended Support Release (ESR)

 

[dave_the_nerd]

We have similar problems with the Pi 2's that run our status screens and the Iceweasel browser.

We set them up to automatically kill/relaunch the browser every couple hours. The status screen is the browser home page, and some javascript in a hidden frame handles the rest.

We messed around with Selenium browser automation for a while, but it was klunky and didn't always work right.