I also just tried downloading mods via the ingame downloader. It takes minutes until it shows the modlist and minutes until the download button can be seen. the download itself didn't take long. I'm located in Germany and use Vodafone DSL. Do you guys still have problems? *Update* I read somewhere t...

I love you guys for the Stations Tab. I always have a hard time finding stuff in my megabases because my memory is so bad. Gotta try it right now!

Crashing due to an out of memory exception feels fine to me, I also have the 2 min old autosave. It seems like factorio is leaking memory somewhere or has memory fragmentation issues which accumulate over time.

Similiar thing just happened to me. Looks like out of memory as well, which is surprising with 16 GB of RAM. The log looks a bit different though. I added it for comprehensiveness. No current save was created.