refresh my memory -- why firefox goes grey and inactive?

[Pat Brown]

>
> Doh. I think you didn't read the paragraph after that. Of course,
> Compiz is not the root cause. The greying out is like the idiot light
> on your car's dashboard that tells you that you are about to run out
> of gas, which, as I recall, makes Compiz like the idiot light. If you
> don't want the idiot light, turn of the relevant Compiz setting (at
> least I seem to remember that being the solution to that). And of
> course, that isn't going to solve the underlying issue(s).
>
> I've seen a bunch of this. In my case it was probably a combination of
> low memory, and poorly written X.org stuff. It tends to effect FF more
> than other apps, but I've seen it in openoffice too, and others.
>
> The "greying" may last a second or two, or it may last many minutes
> (in my case), depending on how depleted the system resources are.
> Restarting X (or rebooting), usually gave me some extra life.
> Troubleshooting the root cause, would mean knowing what the hardware
> specs are, what processes are running and what resources they are
> using, how much free memory there is etc.
>
> I went from 1G or ram to 4, and went from Intel video to nividia, and
> my similar problems completely disappeared. Forever. I also use Chrome
> now, which is significantly less resource hungry. And XFCE, for
> similar reasons.
>
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I installed Chrome after this discussion and while I've only been running it
for a few days, I have to say I notice a huge difference. My laptop hasn't
grayed out at all and I've even run not only OO, but gedit, and Banshee
while having several web pages open. I could never do that before with
Firefox. I'm a convert.

Pat Brown

http://www.pabrown.ca
Award winning author of the L.A. crime novels.
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