First of all, stoat.chat never worked on Pale Moon to begin with, but with the previous build (39) I could reach the site and attempt (fail) to log in. Now, with version 34 even going to the front page freezes the browser. I had to force quit each time.
OS is Mac Catalina 10.15.7
PM version is 34.0.0
(still don't know where browser crash data is stored, sorry)
stoat.chat now freezes PM while attempting to load
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KlarkKentThe3rd
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q160765803
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Re: stoat.chat now freezes PM while attempting to load
For the freeze, it could be related to this: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=33090KlarkKentThe3rd wrote: ↑2026-01-21, 07:01First of all, stoat.chat never worked on Pale Moon to begin with, but with the previous build (39) I could reach the site and attempt (fail) to log in. Now, with version 34 even going to the front page freezes the browser. I had to force quit each time.
OS is Mac Catalina 10.15.7
PM version is 34.0.0
(still don't know where browser crash data is stored, sorry)
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jobbautista9
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Re: stoat.chat now freezes PM while attempting to load
It is related. What triggered the hang here is the 1.82 MB(!) SVG graphic in the "Text channels, done right" section which has an <image> with a very large xlink:href attribute value: https://stoat.chat/_astro/chat-desel.BlZ9IcJe.svg
In fact there are multiple of these megabyte-sized SVGs in the homepage.
In fact there are multiple of these megabyte-sized SVGs in the homepage.

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Re: stoat.chat now freezes PM while attempting to load
Makes me wonder why they won't use much smaller bitmap formats instead.jobbautista9 wrote: ↑2026-01-21, 08:28In fact there are multiple of these megabyte-sized SVGs in the homepage.
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