Disabling Pango in Firefox

Michael C sieverfrisch at yahoo.ie
Wed Jan 9 13:08:24 UTC 2008


wwp wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:50:41 +0000 Michael C <sieverfrisch at yahoo.ie> wrote:
>
>   
>> Robert Nichols wrote:
>>     
>>> Michael C wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering if anyone knew how to disable Pango in Firefox, as 
>>>> "pango" seems not to appear in any of the about:config settings.
>>>>         
>>> Set MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 in your environment before launching.
>>>
>>>       
>> Rex Dieter wrote:
>>     
>>> Michael C wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> I was wondering if anyone knew how to disable Pango in Firefox, as
>>>> "pango" seems not to appear in any of the about:config settings.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 
>>> firefox
>>>
>>> -- Rex
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Thanks, that does seem to have speeded up rendering (for the time being, 
>> at least ;))
>>     
>
> I didn't really noticed a difference, but maybe I'd need a "proper"
> test to see the impact on performances (according to my system speed).
> Just curious, what is supposed to do MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 exactly, or
> same question w/ MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=0 :-)? Is this just towards speed or
> is there an impact on any feature or visual impact?
>
>
> Regards,
>
>   

You're right. As I'd suspected, any speed improvements were purely down
to relieving the memory leak on rebooting!





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