Question "Opera has stopped working" in Windows 7 while it didn't

[Klymins]

Hello. As I said previously, I have Windows 7 installed on my older computer, and some weird stuff is going on in it. (This was actually happening before too, but I decided to write here when it happened again and that's now because I tried schnofler's ABC/HR tool which doesn't work here to see if it works there.)

While Opera (browser, I use an old version of it) is running, especially when it just started, sometimes one and sometimes two windows saying "Opera Internet Browser has stopped working" appear, but Opera continues working even when I close these windows. This happens more than once. It doesn't cause problems for me but I thought it may be a signal of some bad things. What can be the cause of this, and what should I do?

I managed to insert an image:

The text is translated as:

Opera Internet Browser has stopped working

A problem has caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program.

=> Close the program

=> Debug in the program

 

[SkyNetRising]

What can be the cause of this, and what should I do?

You have insane amount of tabs open.
Probably your system run out of ram and opera crashed because of that.

Monitor ram usage of your pc and try to close unneeded browser tabs.

 

[Klymins]

You have insane amount of tabs open.
Probably your system run out of ram and opera crashed because of that.

Monitor ram usage of your pc and try to close unneeded browser tabs.

I said "but Opera continues working even when I close these windows". This means Opera does not crash.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I said "but Opera continues working even when I close these windows". This means Opera does not crash.

It did crash.
Opera has multiple sub processes - a separate process for each tab, separate process for different opera services/functionality.
Main process may not have crashed, but one or multiple sub processes have crashed.

 

[Klymins]

It does crash.
Opera has multiple sub processes - a separate process for each tab, separate process for different opera services/functionality.
Main process may not have crashed, but one or multiple sub processes have crashed.

How can I see which processes crash and what are their purposes? Could this be a malware?

 

[SkyNetRising]

How can I see which processes crash and what are their purposes?

You'd have to go through all your open tabs, to test which one of them has crashed.

Could this be a malware?

Told you before. Most likely your system is running out of ram.