Firefox 1.5 issues

[Motor]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:04:44 +0800, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)
wrote:

> On 3/27/06, Motor <motor1024 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Try:
>>
>> $ MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 /usr/bin/firefox
>>
>> It seems to have cured the problem for me. I was hoping for a faster
>> Pango myself, but FC5 seems to be a major step back in that regard. I
>> don't know whether it's the change to using Cairo... but the
>> much-talked about performance improvements in GNOME seem to have been
>> thrown away.
> 
> How do we get this setting to be loaded automatically? Can we also
> enable this without opening Firefox?

Add:

   export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1

to the file ~/.bashrc... but the setting only applies to Firefox (and
possibly Mozilla too, I don't know).