Dirk Munk wrote:
I haven't mentioned stability until now, but with these settings Seamonkey hasn't crashed these last days, and it used to do that once or twice per day.
You may not have used the word "stability" in the bodies of your messages, but when you put "stability" in the subject line and "crash" in the body it's clearly what you're talking about.
My experience with SM has been different in that it has crashed only a couple of times a year, usually for nonreproducible reasons. By "crash" I mean "terminated without authorization," not "stopped producing output and accepting user input," which has been happening several times a day. I call that "hanging," because the program is still running according to Windows Task Manager (which usually reports "Not Responding"), and resumes normal operation after two to five minutes. At those times, if I keep demanding a response with mouse clicks, Windows will prompt me to wait or close the unresponsive program. If I choose to wait, SM will eventually revive. Once it does, a normal shutdown and restart of the program (including automatic clearing of cache and cookies) will clean out the crud and allow it to perform well for a while.
Since I increased the allowed memory cache size about a week ago, the hangs have decreased drastically in frequency, but have not been entirely eliminated. If I really push it, I can still get it to hang occasionally. But it's a lot more pleasant to run.
For other users, I suspect some sources of hangs and crashes are related to badly written ad scripts, but my ad blocker takes care of most of those. And of course if I choose to walk on the sketchier side of the Internet, it's easy to find sites that will serve malware and obnoxious popups insisting that I need to install their anti-malware programs. (Right. I was born yesterday. Well, I guess "there's one born every minute.") But none of that is SeaMonkey's fault, and a decent internet security program will take care of that.
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