Working on a page with lots of ajax and javascript and it just stopped working. Nothing worked, not even alerts. Eventually I went to close firefox and open it again, and when I did it told me there was a firefox process still running and I had to close it before starting FF again, so I went into the task manager and did and it worked fine from then on.
What happened was I had had an infinite loop in my javascript code while working on it, and it seems that kept running away in the background and stopping ff running any more javascript.