<p>Do you have tag-pair-highlighter enabled, if so, as b4n says, it has been reported as possibly causing crashes.  From your OP you are getting the crash on the delete which is not the autoclose plugin inserting the >.</p>

<p>Make sure you only have one plugin enabled so you know which is the cause then report it.</p>

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