Gray requests are those that are loaded from the cache, as described here in the promo function:
http://getfirebug.com/network
Cached or Uncached
Not all network requests are equal - some of them are downloaded from the browser cache, and not from the network. Firebug provides status codes for each request so you can quickly scan and see how efficiently your site uses the cache to optimize page load time.
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