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OLPC has fixed a problem with the Browse and Epiphany web browsers on the XO-1 laptops.
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Problem
Browse and Epiphany may stop suddenly, or text may be replaced by boxes.
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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 13.2.1 see http://rpmdropbox.laptop.org/f18-xo1/ (in progress, not complete)
- 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.
Some time after 12.1.0, WebKit began using SSE instructions for certain floating point operations.
google.com began using JavaScript elements with floating point arithmetic.
