Firefox 1.5 issues

[Motor]

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:26:53 +0200, Boris Glawe wrote:

> I can confirm, that firefox hangs for seconds while it locks up the
> whole gnome desktop when visiting some pages. This is a strange thing,
> that I've never experienced before in older FC Versions.
> 
> It's not crashing though. Except the high CPU usage it does what it's
> excpected to do.

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.