RSelenium browser, firefox vs phantomJS

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Hi, I'm relatively new to RSelenium. I'm webscraping content in dynamic websites using this package to set a Remote Driver and access the desired content through Firefox. The thing is that I feel that the quality of content I get depends on the power of my computer to genereate the website's html code and to process it in each iteration of my loop. I was wondering if using

 rsDriver(browser="phantomjs")

instead of

 rsDriver(browser="firefox")

may improve the performance of my request.

Any help with this, advise or comment about scraping dynamic websites with Rstudio would be appreciated.

Thanks

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