Palemoon Portable crashes after some days

[stevemork]

Hi,

I love Palemoon Portable very much. There is one annoying bug:

If I leave Palemoon open with about 3 Tabs (one ebay.de), it crashes after about 4 days, e.g. Weekend. Seems to grab more and more memory until it dies.

It runs on Windows 7 Enterprise 32 Bit, but this also occurs on Windows 10 on other PCs.

Best regards

Steve

[Moonchild]

You're probably running out of memory because of ebay leaking memory all over the place.

[stevemork]

Thanks for your replay. Yes that could be possible. But shouldn't the browser avoid dieing due to bad web sites? By the way, the problem is with older Palemoon versions also.

[Moonchild]

Thanks for your replay. Yes that could be possible. But shouldn't the browser avoid dieing due to bad web sites?

There's only so much a browser can do about website scripting. In the simplest way of making an analogy, compare it to pouring water into a glass: if you keep pouring more water in, it will overflow. Is it then the glass's fault that your table gets wet?
And since we're talking about sessions of several days, it can be a slow trickle of memory not being released. Combined with using 32-bit which has very limited address space to work with, and you'll end up with out-of-memory situations that can't be recovered from. That leads to (deliberate but safe) crashes of the application.