Comment 143 for bug 226470

Regarding the "semi-responsiveness" of hung gmail window (mentioned in Attachment #317518).

It may be worth noting that although the Firefox gmail window contents is "dead" (i.e. the window body displays the contents of what was previously at that location on the monitor), it is still "alive".

One can move the window around on the monitor, can move it between workspaces and interestingly enough it is still communicating with gmail. If I use Galeon to access my gmail mailbox and send myself a test message the title bar on the window does change from 4 unread messages to 5 unread messages. The time for this to happen however is some number of seconds, significantly longer than for the same change to be reflected in the Galeon window for my mailbox.