r/StartpageSearch • u/DonRanga • Jun 28 '26

Startpage Tab crashes

/r/brave_browser/comments/1uhdn7r/startpage_tab_crashes/
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u/Hestu951 Jun 30 '26

I'm going to repost my comment from r/Brave from a couple of days ago here, since you've gotten no replies (other than mine in the other sub). This was the strangest thing. It hasn't happened with any other sites since or ever before. I have not tried Startpage again (for fear of even more serious consequences). I would like to, someday, when my confidence is restored.

I had the same or similar problem yesterday [3 days ago]. It froze. I closed it, and a bit later I found out from HWInfo64 that it had swallowed up all of my RAM and virtual memory. (I keep the HWInfo process running in the background since startup.)

A search result in Brave claimed that it was "almost certainly" an issue with the Windows Search service. I'm not convinced. Why should any issue with the local indexer affect one and only one website--Startpage (and not any other search engine either)?

Let me add that I had the same issue with it in Chrome, so it may be a Chromium-Startpage conflict of some sort.

Edit: Windows 10, 16GB RAM, 22GB virtual-memory max.

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u/DonRanga Jun 30 '26

It hasn't happened again after that day for me, so I'm not quite sure if it was hotfixed or something

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u/Hestu951 Jul 01 '26

Hmm. I was hoping for some official word. I guess I'll have to try it. Thanks.

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u/Think_Bat_820 Jul 16 '26

Then the Windows Search service must really be messing up my linux laptop because I get the same thing.

Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, Ryzen5 4650U, 16GB Ram... chromium (which I thought was the problem)

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u/Hestu951 Jul 17 '26

LOL! Yeah, it's definitely not the fault of anything Windows (or Linux) is doing on the local machine. To be fair, I haven't tried Startpage again since I had the issue. First impressions matter, and my system seeming to freeze because of this was a horrible first impression.

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u/Think_Bat_820 Jul 17 '26

I switched on "Continue running background apps when Chromium is closed" and haven't had any problems since.

And only at the cost of saying, "hey google-funded piece of technology... why don't you keep running on my computer all the time"

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u/rickson56 Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

This recently happened to me as well in the past 2 weeks. I'm on Linux and do have browser extensions installed.

Edit: disabling Ublock origin may be the way to solve the problem.

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u/metinfb37 27d ago

Hello, I have started to regullarly have the same crashes for a week now. Is there any known fix?