Firefox issues

[Jim Byrnes]

On 08/17/2013 04:54 AM, pete smout wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am experiencing random freezing of Firefox on my laptop! The window
> 'greys out' and stops responding, whilst the rest of the GUI remains
> useable. This happens at random times on no particular site, with just 1
> tab open or 3 or 4 makes no difference, the only way to solve it is to
> restart ff (force quit needed).
>
> Firefox version 23.0
> Ubuntu 13.04 (fully updated) (no proposed updates since mysql error)
> Unity GUI
>
> System specs:
>
> Acer Aspire 5720 laptop
>
> Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T5250  @ 1.50GHz
> Frequency 1000.000 MHz
> Cache 2048 KB
> 3021 MiB RAM
> Intel graphics chip (as came with machine)
>
> Note to try and debug this I am now running ff from terminal when I want
> to use it, but as stated earlier it happens at random times (last time
> when I forgot to run from terminal doh)
>
> If anyone has any ideas, I have removed and reinstalled ff twice now,
> same thing happens.
>
> I will post any interesting output from terminal as a followup to this
> message if I get any!
>
> Regards
>
> Peter Smout
>
>

I see this occasionally also, but in my case it usually "corrects" 
itself if I wait long enough.  I think it may be javascript related 
because a dialog pops up with a reference to a script misbehaving. When 
I select the option to kill the script all returns to normal.

Regards,  Jim