<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Motor wrote: <blockquote cite="midpan.2006.06.16.22.55.41.718582@yahoo.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:12:48 +0100, Albert Graham wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Type "about:" as the URL and if the screen mentions anything about MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO, then Firefox is not picking up your export or it has gone. export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 should be put in your local/global profile, you should not modify the firefox script as that get's upgraded. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Thanks... but it looks like Pango use was definitely disabled. (the env var is set in ~/.bashrc). It still feels slower than before the recent firefox update though. I'm biting my tongue a bit, because FC5 has been a complete mess from my point of view. Broken sound card, GTK/GNOME performance plummeting with the introduction of Cairo, Evolution still crashing regularly when I quit while using the "Empty trash folders on exit" option. I've been an RH user since 1999, but I'm giving serious consideration to switching to another desktop and another distro. Anyway... thanks for the advice. </pre> </blockquote> I also have a problem with firefox eating all of my cpu. It only happens with some pages, try: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://free.grisoft.com">http://free.grisoft.com</a> When I open this page, Xorg and firefox between them eat up >90% of my processor power. I've tried with or without PANGO and it makes no difference Any ideas? Nigel </body> </html>