I kept receiving this error message one certain pages of my site:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 393 bytes) in /**/public_html/components/com_fireboard/sources/parser.inc.php on line 406

After a while of probing around, I noticed that all of the threads affected had a post by a common user.

After looking into it, it seemed that this users' signatures exceeded 300 characters. Fireboard had therefore truncated his signature. Unfortunately, this happened right in the middle of a closing tag for an img link. The end ']' bracket was therefore missing from his tag.

I removed his signature, and the board started working again.

I've done a search but turned up no results.

It seems than a broken tag in a signature can result in this memory problem.

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Hi,
I seem to have a similar problem. It is pretty serious, as I understand it, as the site I have crashes as soon as a user chooses to use a square bracket. In my case one user makes sad smileys using square brackets, and that seemed to crash the site.

I haven't been able to trace it to other things than fireboard. Actually, I'll try to make a post and see if this site crashes too.

Hope this will help the community to trace the bug.

Thanks!