Ran into some glitches after a FF upgrade, so I installed the latest versions of some of the modules, like MozRepl::Client. My W:M:F is a few months old still though.

I'm getting a weird new problem. Sometimes my program dies at the same place on the same page during a scrape/crawl. Sometimes it makes it past with no error. The page contents are semi-dynamic and there may be subtle changes between hits?

Here's the error: 

(Sub)string is [[object Object] ��� {o] at /usr/l
+ocal/share/perl5/MozRepl/RemoteObject.pm line 251, <STDIN> line 34.
malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or atom, 
+at character offset 1 (before "object Object] \x{2014}...") at /usr/l
+ocal/share/perl5/MozRepl/RemoteObject.pm line 239
    (in cleanup) command timed-out at /usr/local/share/perl5/MozRepl/C
+lient.pm line 186

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I think perhaps it's hitting some embedded UTF8? Shouldn't it be able to happily handle that? Any ideas on where to start looking to apply a fix? Thanks!

In reply to WWW::Mechanize::Firefox malformed JSON error? by tcordes

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