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You can also break strings with bad picking technique, or by over-bending fatigued strings. Every time I broke a string I'd know instantly why it broke. Either I picked too hard, too hard for the amount I bent the string, too hard for how old the strings were, or I'd catch the string on the edge of my pick, or whammy'd too much within a combination of the above.
The usual finger pointing is to a burr in the saddle but in all the years of working on guitars I've only truly seen one or two burr's I could contribute any blame to breaking strings, the rest were all simple metal fatigue or "user error" for the amount of fatigue in the strings being used.
The cure? CHANGE YOUR STRINGS MORE OFTEN!! It ain't rocket science. When they get old, change them!
The new Edge Pro bridges have been attributed to faster fatigue to the strings due to the hardened steel saddle inserts. Theoretically sound and quite possible, but the cure is still the same, change strings more often!! ;o}