34.2.0 -- 2 websites that crash

[Mavericks_10_9]

iMac - Intel Core 2 Duo
MacOS 10.9.5
Pale Moon 34.2.0
uBO 1.16.6.1 - tested both on and off, same result

2 websites that are crashing for me:

https://weather.com/
https://finviz.com/

Thanks for checking!

Mavericks

[dbsoft]

I don't have 10.9 installed to test on, but I have not been able to reproduce on any of my machines.

[ownedbywuigi]

Can't reproduce (on Catalina, High Sierra or Monterey).

Are you on a clean profile?

[Mavericks_10_9]

iMac - Intel Core 2 Duo
MacOS 10.9.5
Pale Moon 34.2.0
uBO 1.16.6.1 - tested both on and off, same result

2 websites that are crashing for me:

https://weather.com/
https://finviz.com/

Thanks for checking!

Mavericks

I reinstalled 34.0.1, and the 2 websites above don't crash Pale Moon now.

I'm happy to test other things to assist.

Thanks

[ownedbywuigi]

I reinstalled 34.0.1, and the 2 websites above don't crash Pale Moon now.

I'm happy to test other things to assist.

Thanks

Does 34.1 have the same issue as 34.2?

[dbsoft]

Also do you have a crash report from it? If so send it to me.

[Mavericks_10_9]

I reinstalled 34.0.1, and the 2 websites above don't crash Pale Moon now.

I'm happy to test other things to assist.

Thanks

Does 34.1 have the same issue as 34.2?

Apologies! I missed 34.1 due to travel. Installed it now.

No crashes of those 2 sites with 34.1

(weather.com is extremely burdensome for this old box... it barely renders at all. but no crash now.)

[pook52mb]

iMac 21.5-inch, Mid 2011 (iMac12,1)
Procesor 2.7 GHz Intel Quad Core i5
Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB
Software OS X 10.9.5 (13F1911)

Pale Moon 34.2.1 (Win, Mac, Lnx)

GetEmAll! 1.2.4
uBlock Or 1.16.6.1
nMatrix 5.2.0

Problem websites, so far.

https://www.bbc.com/news - VIDEOS NOT PLAYING

https://www.reddit.com/ - MEMORY PRESSURE RED
HAVE TO FORCE QUIT

https://www.ms.now/ - 2.1 STALL 2.0 CRASH
2.1 HAVE TO FORCE QUIT

https://www.videohelp.com/software - CRASH
https://www.wunderground.com/ - CRASH
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ - CRASH
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ - CRASH

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news - CRASH
CBC Lite is a low-bandwidth website

Restarting in safe mode makes no difference.
Crashing websites work fine on Pale Moon 34.1.0.
None of the above have any problem on Momiiji 140.0.10.

[dbsoft]

Can you post a crash log? I think I may have seen an unexpected crash on 10.7 in the font subsystem.

I am wondering if it is the same thing.

[pook52mb]

Attached is a .zip file containing the crash logs and dot files for videohelp, wunderground, yahoo/news, ca.news.yahoo, cbc.ca/lite.

These logs are for 34.2.2, after I trashed 34.1.0 except for the Caches, and Application Support folders.

[copymanle]

add Blogger/Blogspot to the list


Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process: exc handler [0]

VM Regions Near 0:
-->
__TEXT 000000010dac3000-000000010dac6000 [ 12K] r-x/r-x SM=COW ) [/Applications/Pale Moon.app/Contents/MacOS/palemoon]

[dbsoft]

At least one of those crashes is one I was able to reproduce on 10.7. Might be related to the recent system font changes or the SDK change. It is a crash in the font subsystem, but oddly it isn't directly in our code.

I will try to have a fix for the next major version.

[dbsoft]

Ok, I have identified the problem as the special system font handling we added a few versions ago. I added some code to disable it at runtime unless on Yosemite (10.10) or later and it appears stable on 10.7. I am going to see if there is a fix for the code on 10.7-10.9 without disabling, but worst case the code will be disabled on those versions of MacOS in the next major release.

[MyMacaroon]

High Sierra: I have a reproducible crash with any google.com domain and subdomain, including gmail

This emerged in Pale Moon 34.2.0 and persists in 34.2.2 – crashes are instant when the domain starts to load.

I have reverted to 34.1.0 to be able to use gmail.

MacBook Air (Early 2015), Intel i7 2.2 GHz, 8GB RAM

macOS 10.13.6

Happy to provide logs.

[pook52mb]

Same problem on Basilisk 2026.04.15

[MyMacaroon]

High Sierra: I have a reproducible crash with any google.com domain and subdomain, including gmail

This emerged in Pale Moon 34.2.0 and persists in 34.2.2 – crashes are instant when the domain starts to load.

I have reverted to 34.1.0 to be able to use gmail.

MacBook Air (Early 2015), Intel i7 2.2 GHz, 8GB RAM

macOS 10.13.6

Happy to provide logs.

Adding that Instagram.com instantly crashes Pale Moon 34.1.0 after passing the login page. I can't test 34.2.x as that crashes when google.com domains load

[dbsoft]

The crash on 10.13 can you send me the logs?

The font code we introduced was supposed to be disabled on MacOS prior to Sierra (10.12), but it was not.

My understanding is the code should work on MacOS 10.12 and later, so 10.13 issues might be something else.

[dbsoft]

Ok, well still waiting for the 10.13 crash logs, but in the meantime please try this build and see if the crashes are fixed.

https://dbsoft.org/whitestar/whitestar- ... ntel64.dmg