Firefox performance on Fedora vs Win32

[Peter Gordon]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:55:20PM +0100, Joe Desbonnet wrote:
>> On the same hardware (Thinkpad T41p, 1.5GB RAM) it *seems* to me that
>> Firefox is far more responsive for web applications than the exact
>> same version of Firefox (1.5.0.4) on the exact same computer running
>> Fedora Core 5.
> 
> Try building without Pango....
> 
You shouldn't even have to rebuild it even. Just set the 
MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO environment variable. For example, open a terminal and 
run:

$ export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1
$ firefox

That will prevent Firefox from using Pango for that run.
(If you want this to be permanent, you can add the export to your login 
scripts such as your ~/.bash_profile or similar.)

Yay for runtime-switchable components. \o/
-- 
Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
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