Konqueror vs Firefox

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:51 AM, David Boles <dgboles at gmail.com> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>  > 2008/3/7 Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>:
>  >> Sunspider: http://webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html
>  >>
>  >> This doesn't benchmark everything, but javascript is important to me as I
>  >> use apps such as Gmail constantly. Since these apps tend not to work in
>  >> Konqueror anyway, they may not be relevant to you. But anything Konq does in
>  >> javascript is way slower than other browsers.
>  >
>  > According to that test, Firefox is significantly faster than
>  > Konqueror, but as you noted that this for Javascript only. And I have
>  > to say, I seriously doubt the usefulness of this test. I know for a
>  > fact that Firefox on my Fedora machines is significantly _slower_ than
>  > Konqueror at rendering pages -- which to me is more important than
>  > rendering Javascript.
>
>
>  Arthur - see if this makes any difference with Firefox for you. I does for me.
>
>  Try a site first to compare to later. Then, as 'root' edit  /etc/profile
>  add this
>
>  export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1

SWEET! Firefox is working at Konqueror speed now.

This Pango thing was an anchor.

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