Camera images don't always load in Chrome

[tlau]

After a while of clicking around on the tabs in the web app, the camera images from the robot will fail to load. Reloading the browser window will fix this.

This is actually a problem in the Chrome/Chromium browsers. The tag used to display camera images opens a long-running connection to the mjpeg_server to retrieve camera images. This connection is not closed when the img element is destroyed. The browser is limited to only making 6 simultaneous connections to each server, so after 6 img tags have been rendered, any further ones will not display the images.

[tlau]

I left a bug report in the Chromium issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=161004

[tlau]

The bug does not happen in Firefox, so that is a temporary workaround.