The replaced memory units test endlessly without errors with memtest86+ so there shouldn't be any hardware issues on this computer any more. It seems the stability is better but not great.Moonchild wrote:If memory testing does not complete and shuts down your system while testing, you definitely have an issue with hardware. Please get your computer checked out. Swapping out memory for different modules may avoid immediate problems depending on the speed/stability of the modules, but won't necessarily give you a stable overall system.
Of course it's unlikely if you are using multiple different physical computers (I'm not sure if this is the case? You mentioned it not being related to computer/OS) that they would all be affected, but if it's a single computer, then hardware is very likely the only cause. Overheating, bad motherboard, and similar can all cause these kinds of issues.
New profiles don't crash until I load tons of tabs, then they get unstable, too.
And it appears to a "common wisdom" that Firefox is unstable with tons of tabs? There are also tons of discussions on memory handling and allocation problems, I seem to recall that failure to allocate is not properly handled and causes a crash, the discussions were old though so things may have changed?
I have used multiple physical computers but I use only one now, the other ones had WIndows XP, this one has Win7 Ultimate 32bit. One common denominator that I remember is that all have had AVG at some point. Some addons and plugins are also the same, although versions are likely different. Foxit PDF viewer is the same, FF/Palemoon hunts down and loads its Quicktime plugins that are older versions, 7.6.6. I'll probably disable them. I have recently enabled click-to play anyway to escape the hideous autoplaying videos/audio on many webpages so I think they don't load?
Another common denominator between installations is also the ADHD "tons-of-tabs" thing
I noticed that Firefox/Palemoon by default hides plugins without associated extensions so I'll probably clean up that section as well.
I still wonder what loads kernelbase.dll.
Sessionstore.js occasionally seems to wake up and update after a long break.