Runaway memory crash

[thelittlebrowserthatcould]

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Win7pro 64-bit, 8GB RAM.

With all extensions disabled and only speed dial open, one of the Opera processes increases consumption of RAM until a crash occurs within a two minutes. Crashreporter log is saved, but as an empty file.

This first occurred with Stable, a week or two ago. Re-installing into a new folder didn't help so I've been using Developer, which has been OK until today. All extensions have now been removed, and it's still happening.

[leocg]

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Open Opera's task manager and see what is that process by checking the PID number.

[thelittlebrowserthatcould]

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PID 2992

[leocg]

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PID 2992

And that process is....?

[thelittlebrowserthatcould]

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Apologies, I assumed the PID would remain constant, perhaps due to an earlier Windows version.

The process is: Browser.

[leocg]

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Check if the problem happens in a standalone installation.

[thelittlebrowserthatcould]

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Thanks: I installed https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/36.0.2130.32/win/Opera_36.0.2130.32_Setup.exe into a separate folder, not into a sub-folder of the usual installation directory, and it's been running fine for over a day.

I was somewhat surprised, though relieved, to see it had imported my bookmarks, speed dial and extensions from the prior runaway Stable installation.

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https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/36.0.2130.32/win/Opera_36.0.2130.32_Setup.exe
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[leocg]

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and it's been running fine for over a day.

Most probably some configuration or corrupted file was causing the issue.

[thelittlebrowserthatcould]

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Thanks, joshl.

Blink with extensions is getting more comfortable -- my username recalls the days of the download fitting on a floppy.

Session Buddy (a Chrome extension) recorded over 400 tabs open before the problems, so maybe I was flying too close to the sun.

[thelittlebrowserthatcould]

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Just to let you know, the problem has re-occurred.

Now with 40.0.2308.62 Stable, still with Windows 7 64-bit, 8 GB RAM.

All extensions, plug-ins and JavaScript disabled.