what means it that firefox keeps greying out?

[Florian Diesch]

"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
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