the only frustration i have with any of this is my own ignorance of programming and my resulting inablity to resolve this problem myself, for this i sincerely apologize to you all. I am very grateful for all the troubleshooting ideas and help.Moonchild wrote:I understand it's frustrating, but there has to be a reason that this occurs on your system. How quickly after dragging and dropping are you closing the browser session? Almost immediately? What if you drag and drop it to a regular folder instead of your desktop?
EDIT: since it's irregular, have you more extensively tested this with Firefox as well or not?
EDIT2: Did you make sure not to use any add-ons or plugins when testing?
usually i drag-n-drop the shortcut, then close a couple seconds later, however long it takes to agree to overwriting the existing shortcut then moving the mouse to the X.
have not "extensively" tested this with firefox, but also never had this problem with firefox. (firefox always got sluggish when opened for too long and memory usage increased- thus prompting my switch to waterfox and then to palemoon 1.x years ago). i'll start testing this with firefox, but then i also wonder about the 32-bit/64-bit environment differences?
before posting on Jul 30, 2013 i had pretty thoroughly tested this problem by systematically removing installed addons 1 at a time (for about a week straight) until the problem went away or until i had disabled all the addons. when i finally got to the point where every single addon was disabled and palemoon hung for the first time with all addons disabled that is when i posted what i did on Jul 30, 2013.