Bug: concurrent crawling

[atersolis]

I've been playing around with foxr to find out if I can use it as a substitute of puppeteer for firefox-based browsers.
I tried this code :

const foxr = require("foxr").default;

async function main() {
	const browser = await foxr.launch({
		headless: false,
		args: [
			"-marionette",
			"-no-remote",
			"-profile",
			"/tmp/firefox_9a139bbd688bad29dce5b4fd"
		],
		executablePath: "/usr/bin/firefox"
	});

	const urls = ["http://google.com", "http://youtube.com", "http://facebook.com"]
	//await lib.crawl(browser, urls);
	const page1 = await browser.newPage();
	const page2 = await browser.newPage();
	const page3 = await browser.newPage();

	await Promise.all([
		page1.goto(urls[0]),
		page2.goto(urls[1]),
		page3.goto(urls[2])
	]);
}

main();

Expected behavior : google, youtube and facebook open in three different tabs (code works with puppeteer)
Observer behavior: I get two empty tabs, and one tab with facebook.
Context : firefox 67.0.2 on ubuntu, foxr 0.9.0

I also noticed that firefox closes on its own after a few seconds of inactivity. Is that an effect of -marionette ?

[deepsweet]

code works with puppeteer

unfortunately that's not how Marionette works – there is no way to send command to particular page by internal ID or something, it affects only a "current" page.

you might want to give puppeteer-firefox a try (keep in mind that it downloads a custom-built Firefox)

firefox closes on its own after a few seconds of inactivity

that shouldn't really happen, at least not in a few seconds. any simple way to reproduce it?

[atersolis]

unfortunately that's not how Marionette works – there is no way to send command to particular page by internal ID or something, it affects only a "current" page.

Too bad, I will have to use puppeteer-firefox. I wanted to avoid it because like you said, it's a custom-built Firefox

that shouldn't really happen, at least not in a few seconds. any simple way to reproduce it?

const foxr = require("foxr").default;

async function main() {
	const browser = await foxr.launch({
		headless: false,
		args: [
			"-marionette",
			"-no-remote",
			"-profile",
			"/tmp/firefox_9a139bbd688bad29dce5b4fd"
		],
		executablePath: "/usr/bin/firefox"
	});
}

main();

With this code, Firefox starts, then closes after about 10 seconds on my PC.

[deepsweet]

With this code, Firefox starts, then closes after about 10 seconds on my PC.

I've figured it out – actually it's "by design". Whenever Node.js has nothing more to do it quits, and by default Foxr is trying to cleanup and stop Firefox processes it has launched.