Ever since a fresh install of Lucid, I get a grey screen when I start Firefox.
I suspect it is something with Firefox given Chrome doesn't have this issue.
Still, having the default browser grey screen when opening the default page is
ridiculous (tried with a new profile and no addons still same issue)
As far as the other subject of this, KDE (and by extension Kubuntu) has a small
icon of the program animated by the cursor as it is starting.
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:41:41 -0400
From: launch...@scott.armitage.name
To: kaz...@gmail.com
CC: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Ayatana] General System Responsiveness
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Luke Benstead <kaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
The other issue is that if some app starts accessing the hard disc / use some
CPU, everything seems to stop completely. Just now I ran some updates while
trying to type this email and Firefox started "grey screening" me every few
seconds. Why? The updates seem to use all the CPU and leave the applications
struggling to even refresh. I'm not saying this is an Ubuntu specific thing,
obviously we've all seen Window's "The application is not responding" dialog,
but I know that I see the greyed window on Ubuntu far more than that dialog on
Windows. And in my experience, the Windows dialog actually appears when that
program is hanging, not because another program is busy.
I have noticed this "grey screening" a lot too, and it really gets on my
nerves; I have four processing cores, each capable of multi-threading -- no
matter what I'm doing on my computer, I expect the user interface to be
completely responsive. I know this is not a trivial task, but Windows 7 is
currently doing a much better job of this.
-Scott
--
Scott Armitage, B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. candidate
Space Flight Laboratory
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
4925 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3H 5T6
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