12863

OLPC has fixed a problem with the Browse and Epiphany web browsers on the XO-1 laptops.

Problem

Browse and Epiphany may stop suddenly.

This began to be common when using google.com, late in 2014, and early in 2015.

On XO-1.5, XO-1.75 and XO-4, the problem does not occur.

Solution

Upgrade to 14.1.0 once it is released.

Workaround

Use another search engine.

or

Upgrade the webkitgtk3 package:

• for 14.1.0 see http://rpmdropbox.laptop.org/f20-xo1/

Diagnosis

XO-1 uses the Geode processor which does not have full SSE support.

WebKit began using SSE instructions for certain floating point operations.

google.com began using JavaScript elements with floating point arithmetic.

See Also

• ticket #12863,