to reproduce it, i create a small emtpy html document. then i evaluate the following expression: (dotimes (i 100) (browse-url-of-file)) This causes emacs to start opening the file using google chrome. In the task manager, i can see emacs' memory usage go up by about 5 megabytes each time a tab is opened. When it opens about 30 tabs, emacs is using 138 megabytes of memory, and it gives the error below. the translation is something like this: "ShellExecute failed: Storage space insufficient to process this command" My harddrive has enough storage space btw. I was able to reproduce this bug 3 times. I ran emacs with -Q on windows 8. Im using emacs version: GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) of 2014-10-24 on LEG570 Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "ShellExecute failed: Espacio de almacenamiento insuficiente para procesar este comando.") w32-shell-execute("open" "file:///c:/Users/mario/Desktop/x.html") browse-url-default-windows-browser("file:///c:/Users/mario/Desktop/x.html" nil) apply(browse-url-default-windows-browser "file:///c:/Users/mario/Desktop/x.html" nil) browse-url-default-browser("file:///c:/Users/mario/Desktop/x.html" nil) apply(browse-url-default-browser "file:///c:/Users/mario/Desktop/x.html" nil) browse-url("file:///c:/Users/mario/Desktop/x.html") browse-url-of-file("c:/Users/mario/Desktop/x.html") browse-url-of-buffer() (while (< i --dotimes-limit--) (browse-url-of-buffer) (setq i (1+ i))) (let ((--dotimes-limit-- 100) (i 0)) (while (< i --dotimes-limit--) (browse-url-of-buffer) (setq i (1+ i)))) (dotimes (i 100) (browse-url-of-buffer)) eval((dotimes (i 100) (browse-url-of-buffer)) nil) eval-expression((dotimes (i 100) (browse-url-of-buffer)) nil) call-interactively(eval-expression nil nil) command-execute(eval-expression) In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) of 2014-10-24 on LEG570 Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.3.9600 Configured using: `configure --prefix=/c/usr' Important settings: value of $LANG: ESM locale-coding-system: cp1252 Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: C-x C-f x . h m l t m l C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k C-x C-s M-: ( d o t i m e s - SPC ( i SPC 1 0 0 ) SPC ( b r o w s e - u r l b u f ) ) C-a M-w e i q C-h C-a C-c M-w M-w M-x r e p o r t - e m Recent messages: Wrote c:/Users/mario/Desktop/x.html user-error: Beginning of history; no preceding item Entering debugger... Mark set End of buffer [6 times] Saved text from "Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Sh" 30 (#o36, #x1e, ?\C-^) Back to top level. Mark set C-c M-w is undefined Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils mule-util help-mode easymenu debug browse-url sgml-mode time-date tooltip electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp w32-common-fns disp-table w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process w32notify w32 multi-tty emacs) Memory information: ((conses 8 82170 4244) (symbols 32 17933 0) (miscs 32 88 151) (strings 16 12976 3656) (string-bytes 1 327227) (vectors 8 10094) (vector-slots 4 391999 3862) (floats 8 61 285) (intervals 28 398 48) (buffers 508 15))