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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