what means it that firefox keeps greying out?

[Pat Brown]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
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That would be my problem then. I often have both FF and OO open and work in
both. I've known for a while I need a new laptop.


Pat Brown

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Award winning author of the L.A. crime novels.
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