[OU] crashes

[Sogn Mill-Scout]

>>Sogn Mill-Scout wrote:
>> Opera 9.25 began to crash about once daily several days ago, so 
>> we upgraded to 9.64. Among other problems, about which I wrote 
>> earlier, we have now had 4 or 5 crashes in the ~24 hours since 
>> installing 9.64. Our computer is clean, having been scanned by 
>> McAfee. It doesn't seem correlated with any particular pages or 
>> types of pages. One variable that could be relevant is the 
>> number of tabs I've had open in the last few days; roughly 15-20 
>> (3 or 4 in one window, the rest in another window). But I think 
>> it also crashed when I reduced tabs to about 10-12 total. At the 
>> moment I'm in search of new ideas. Any suggestions?
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>At 10:49 AM, 4/13/2009, Monday, Peter Ellis wrote:
>
>I'm glad I'm not the only one! With me it is mostly on a single machine 
>running XPPro with all the services packs, AVG latest (updated at least 
>once a day) and Spybot S+D latest. Opera had always been very stable and 
>reliable until recently. I thought moving it from 9.63 to 9.64 might 
>have cured it, but it didn't. It usually goes when I'm not actively 
>using it. I'll be working on my laptop next to it when I see the Opera 
>needs to close down message on the adjacent screen. I, too, normally 
>have lots of tabs open but I have always done so. Incidentally, the 
>laptop which has the same versions of everything doesn't seem to have 
>a problem.
>
>Cheers
>Peter
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Misery loves company! It's probably coincidental, but this 
started a few days after a tech support call to Qwest regarding 
a plunge in my DSL speed. The tech guy did a lot of mysterious 
mucking around on his end before seemingly solving the problem. 
I don't see how he could have directly interacted with my PC. And 
it was several days between that and this crash stuff. More 
relevantly, perhaps, is that McAfee found two trojans on this 
computer a couple days ago. It quarantined them, but I wonder if 
somehow they damaged Opera. Nothing else on the computer 
shows signs of diminished performance, however. I'm still at wits
end. Opera has already crashed 3 times this morning. Once when 
using another program; twice when opening pages from Google. 

- Sogn

Sogn Mill-Scout
ss91 at q.com