what means it that firefox keeps greying out?

[Ollie Killingback]

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> On 12/05/10 20:30, Robert P. J. Day 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.
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> >> 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.
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> >>  anyone else seeing this?  thoughts?
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> >A similar behaviour I've seen when the system is about to have the
> >monitor go to sleep or start the screen saver. The first time it
> >frightened the heck out of me thinking that my monitor was about to die
> >but then I got use to it :-) .
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> I had the same thing happen to me on an older laptop running 9.10.  It
happened rather frequently.  At first I thought it was due to a script
running (or not) but then I thought it couldn't be, it had to be something
local. Usually waiting cleared it, but once or twice I had to kill Firefox.
I had run several versions of Ubuntu previously on the same kit with no
problems.

Then I upgraded my machine: I've now got a 64 bit laptop with 4G of RAM
running 9.10 and have not seen the problem at all, so I guess it was
something to do with the former machine.

Yes, it is frightening, you think your machine is being hijacked or
something.  But I don't think there is anything like that happening, just
some internal issue over resources.

Ollie K
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