Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:51 AM, David Boles <dgboles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> 2008/3/7 Brian <Brian.Mingus@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> 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.
Good. Glad that helped.
Care for another Firefox tip?
--
David
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