what means it that firefox keeps greying out?

Hal Burgiss hal at burgiss.net
Wed May 12 14:08:31 UTC 2010


On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>  i'm not sure if this is related to my running a 2.6.34-rc7 kernel
> but, recently (within the last day or so), i've had my firefox session
> suddenly go dim/grey, and become totally unresponsive.  it *appears*
> to be related to when it's trying to load a page, but i've never seen
> this behaviour before on any distro.
>
>  in some cases, if i just wait, it will come back; in other cases,
> it's a lost cause and i have to kill firefox.  in an extreme case, i
> had to power down the entire machine and reboot.
>
>  anyone else seeing this?  thoughts?

Whats your hardware profile like? a) FF is a resource hog b) To run
resource intensive stuff like Firefox, Openoffice and/or Gnome for any
length of time, you need more than 1G memory on recent Ubuntu (post
8.04). I'd suggest 4G, fast HDD, and decent cpu.

I have found Google Chrome much less resource hungry.


-- 
Hal




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