Pages freezing and can't be refreshed

Still getting Aw, Snap! and seems to be getting worse, maybe?

This time the page had hardly been open long at all (20 mins I think, it's always been well over an hour in the past).

I also keep getting errors when trying to even log onto the page

Thanks Jo. That's on the mobile site, I'll see if I have better luck on the app.

'chrome isn't responding, do you want to x wait x close'

On android, constantly freezing and giving this message. I can get away with 'wait' the first time but after that I have to close it by hitting the x repeatedly at which point my phone freezes until the whole app shuts.

It's endlessly frustrating.

I've been getting the 'Aw Snap' thing popping up when I am in the middle of scrolling down while reading a thread, and also when I post a comment, so it happens during active use.

At other times the screen won't budge at all, and sticks in one place. Usually about halfway down a long thread. You can't scroll up or down, or refresh it. No error message or anything, it just freezes completely.

Desktop / Chrome.

I am finding that long threads seem to freeze. I usually browse MN on an Android laptop using Chrome. I use the setting to see all posts, no pages. If I leave a tab open with an MN thread on it, when I come back hours later it won't refresh or scroll. I get a little message at the top that asks me if I want to wait or exit. Saying wait makes little difference. The quickest thing to do is to close down the tab and start again, which is irritating.

Don't know how much this will help but it seems to be a memory leak problem.

If I leave 4-5 threads open and go away then when I return and try to bring the tabs to the front they suddenly start using 4-8 Gigabytes each.

I had left task manager open so I could look quickly as I'd seen this before.

I was testing this on a desktop computer with a lot of ram so it coped better than the average laptop but it ground to a halt and 3 pages failed to display.

One gave an out of memory message and the other two the 'snap' error. (see below)

I watched the ram usage drop back to normal in task manager after perhaps 30 seconds and then I was able to refresh and get the pages back.

It should not have given an out of memory error at all as in addition to the ram there was 32gb virtual memory available.

I would call it a Chrome problem as I can't reproduce it in firefox, but the way pages on this site update may be contributing as it doesn't happen anywhere else.

This is what it looks like when I try and open a tab while I have others (usually 4-10 or so) open to read later. I have been doing this for years and it has never caused an issue before.

As you can see, it loads a tiny bit then stops. It will stay this way for minutes. I then will navigate away and when I come back, the page is just blank with no loading bar.

If I do manage to get a long thread open, it will sometimes randomly go to the 'Oh Snap' reload screen then when I do reload, if it loads, I've lost my place.

Finding it all goes absolutely massive when reading on a laptop. Can only see huge logo etc and no actual thread content.

My joy was short lived.
Went out mid thread. Returned and page was frozen, refresh is still not finished after far too long, I'm done with it.
What is the point of a site that is re-launched and still doesn't work?

I used to right click on threads that looked interesting to me but I can't do this anymore. I have to look at them one at a time. If I open tabs this way they just don't load.

Left it last night to go to sleep.
Just now:
This page is having a problem
Try coming back to it later etc....

Windows 10 laptop using Edge as I thought it was Chrome causing it so changed over.

This time I refreshed and it actually loaded. I fell off my chair in shock.

Happened again. Tab had been open several hours. Three tabs gave this error. A fourth, that has been open less time (but still hours), did not. Cleared cache this morning when I last posted here.

Sorry I missed the request for info. I'm using MN in a browser on an android tablet. I cleared my cache as suggested, things improved for a couple of minutes and then pages started freezing, taking ages to load or wouldn't refresh again. It's much quicker for me to go back to a Google search to open MN again.

My browser is up to date. Not sure if I've cleared my cache since this started happening. I did early on in the MN update because of issues. But that may have been before this started. I'll do it now and let you know if it happens again.

I have posted about this too, have thread somewhere...

Just to add - this didn't happen to all the threads I had open overnight but to at least two, maybe three (I only just thought of this thread on the last one, sorry).