what means it that firefox keeps greying out?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Harry L. Lee <harry at jonesnose.com> wrote:

> i see this a bunch in firefox. it has always been my assumption that a
> script is eating the machine alive (the top bar system monitor indicates the
> machine is pegged (course, i'm running on a netbook, so that is easy to
> do.))
>
>
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Florian Diesch <diesch at spamfence.net>wrote:
>
>> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> writes:
>>
>> >   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*
>>
>> Windows get greyed out if they are unresponsive for some time.
>>
>> > 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?
>>
>> Start Firefox in safe mode by running
>>  firefox -safe-mode
>> from the command line. This disables extensions and themes. If it's
>> better now one of your extensions is causing the problem.
>>
>>   Florian
>>
>>
I have this happen all the time on my 4-core older Xeon desktop  with 2 GB
RAM.  I just guess FF is a hog, and needs to be rebooted from time to time.


-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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