what means it that firefox keeps greying out?

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On Wed, 12 May 2010 13:43:57 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> On Wed, 12 May 2010, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Does anyone know what part of the system is causing the graying out?
>> > Is it Gnome, is it some Ubuntu-special? I'd like to make it stop.
>>
>> Its the system itself. When you do something in FF and it is triggering
>> this, the system does not have the resources available to respond as it
>> should. So it just drags the system as the system starts trying to make
>> the resources available. Its kind of a tipping point thing, and since
>> FF is a resource pig, it is more likely to be the culprit to cause this
>> (but not the only thing). There's a lot of factors involved, including
>> memory, cpu and video resources.
> 
>   but i think the question was ... what specifically is controlling
> the graying of the FF client?  i used fedora for years and, even when FF
> was dragging the system to its knees, i never saw that phenomenon. is
> this a GNOME setting?  i don't necessarily want to turn it off, i just
> want to know who's responsible for it.
> 
It's Compiz. If you have the compiz settings manager installed, go in 
General Options and adjust the Ping delay. Currently it's set to 5000 
milliseconds. It doesn't look like it can be disabled, so setting the 
value to an extremely high number should prevent it from activating under 
normal usage. 

Alternatively, if you don't have ccsm installed, you can adjust the ping 
delay value from gconf-editor. Go to /apps/compiz/general/allscreens/
options/ping_delay.

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