firefox turns gray after 2 minutes

Asked by Bob

Never had this happen. Chrome is works just so you know. Everything else is working fine. I have waited to see if it would come back, but after 20 minutes nothing, I have to force quite it never comes back. I'm on a hp compaq dc7100 cmt. Would like to fix this I like Firefox better than all the other web browsers I've tried.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy firefox

Thanks

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Bob (smith13) said :
#2

desktop:~$ lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy firefox
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Linux rjsmith-desktop 3.13.0-52-generic #86-Ubuntu SMP Mon May 4 04:32:15 UTC 2015 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
firefox:
  Installed: 38.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  Candidate: 38.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 38.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     28.0+build2-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
rjsmith@rjsmith-desktop:~$

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Bob (smith13) said :
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I was watching my system monitor for about 20 minutes. I have Firefox open and its gray. CPU1 is running at 100% CPU2 is at around 25%, then they jump & CPU1 is around 25% & CPU2 is 100%. They keep changing back and forth every few seconds. Comparing it to my other computer that is playing a video on vaughnlive, it doesn't look right. I don't know if this will help but I thought I would tell you what I found.

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Bob (smith13) said :
#4

So dose anyone have a clue On what I could do, to try and fix this??

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#5

If you run:

sudo apt-get install xfce4

Then log off then login to the new XFCE session, is it OK then?

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Bob (smith13) said :
#6

I fixed it the other day. I uninstalled Firefox, delete all files with the name Firefox, then reinstalled it. What I found is some of my add-ons were no longer available, like Ginger grammar & spell checker. The one I miss the most. But I was thinking they were trying to connect, when they were no longer working and that is what was pushing my CPU with Firefox to over drive.