Internet browser keeps crashing

Rage85 · 5 Apr 2025 at 13:35

I only ever have internet browser/spotify and Football Manager running on my computer, but for some reason my intenet browser keeps crashing, ive even tried different browsers, chrome/edge/firefox/brave etc, still keeps happening, any ideas?

ezekial · 5 Apr 2025 at 14:19

Does it just close itself with no error window or message or something? What are the specific symptoms? Is it immediate or when you go to a particular site?

Tetras · 5 Apr 2025 at 14:59

As asked above, what do you mean by "crashing"? Assuming you aren't running out of memory, it sounds like you have a software problem, or a hidden instability issue.

FredFlint · 5 Apr 2025 at 16:50

1: Disable hardware acceleration.
2: Browsers are sensitive to memory issues: run MemTest.

Rage85 · 5 Apr 2025 at 18:55

FredFlint said:
1: Disable hardware acceleration.
2: Browsers are sensitive to memory issues: run MemTest.

1.hardware acceleration was already off.
2. no problems detected.

Rage85 · 5 Apr 2025 at 18:55

Tetras said:
As asked above, what do you mean by "crashing"? Assuming you aren't running out of memory, it sounds like you have a software problem, or a hidden instability issue.

whole thing will freeze, just the browser, nothing else.

Rage85 · 5 Apr 2025 at 18:56

ezekial said:
Does it just close itself with no error window or message or something? What are the specific symptoms? Is it immediate or when you go to a particular site?

no errors, just freezes, not noticed it on any specific website.

ED209 · 5 Apr 2025 at 18:57

Have you checked event viewer to see what is causing the crashes?

ezekial · 5 Apr 2025 at 19:17

Have you checked task manager to see if anything is consuming excessive cpu or memory?

Gray2233 · 5 Apr 2025 at 19:30

What are the exact specifications of your computer, specifically how much RAM do you have?

something daft already!! · 5 Apr 2025 at 23:02

Do you have any third party plugins? Do you get the error in incognito mode?

ezekial · 5 Apr 2025 at 23:08

He said it.happrns on all different types of browser so dont think it woulf be a plugin. Maybe you should just reinstall windows

Gray2233 · 5 Apr 2025 at 23:12

ezekial said:
He said it.happrns on all different types of browser so dont think it woulf be a plugin. Maybe you should just reinstall windows

Without knowing his hardware I'm not sure if that's really going to help.

While he states that he games, after looking up the system requirements of the latest Football Manager it would run on a toaster and a wet fart. A lot of modern browsers run on Chromium, which is notoriously hard on RAM, and even those that don't can be on the hefty side. If the OP is running a laptop with 8gb of memory, and a chunk of that partitioned to the IGPU, or even just an older RAM limited desktop, he could very well be running into RAM related problems, which given his explanation doesn't sound improbable to me. Hell, even 16gb of RAM could cut it close depending on usage these days, you have enough tabs running and you'll have issues sooner or later.

Ice Tea · 6 Apr 2025 at 10:13

I would boot the machine from a Linux Mint / Ubuntu usb image and see if browsing is still a issue.