[vox-tech] application greyed out

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [vox-tech] application greyed out
> From: Hai Yi <yihai2004 at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, December 02, 2010 4:24 am
> To: "lugod's technical discussion forum" <vox-tech at lists.lugod.org>
> 
> 
> hello All: I am using ubuntu 9.10, in a quite frequent fashion, I
> noticed that the whole UI screen of some applications just grey out
> after working a while, as if they are under heavy resource consuming
> tasks.
> 
> So far, this happened to Firefox

This happens to me when using Firefox. It seems to be a reaction
to the website taking too long to respond. Most likely, it occurs
when the website starts sending the page but then stops in the
middle. But this is just a guess.

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