what means it that firefox keeps greying out?

[Harry L. Lee]

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
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