Konqueror vs Firefox
David Boles
dgboles at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 17:02:58 UTC 2008
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:51 AM, David Boles <dgboles at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> > 2008/3/7 Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>:
>> >> Sunspider: http://webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html
>> >>
>> >> This doesn't benchmark everything, but javascript is important to me as I
>> >> use apps such as Gmail constantly. Since these apps tend not to work in
>> >> Konqueror anyway, they may not be relevant to you. But anything Konq does in
>> >> javascript is way slower than other browsers.
>> >
>> > According to that test, Firefox is significantly faster than
>> > Konqueror, but as you noted that this for Javascript only. And I have
>> > to say, I seriously doubt the usefulness of this test. I know for a
>> > fact that Firefox on my Fedora machines is significantly _slower_ than
>> > Konqueror at rendering pages -- which to me is more important than
>> > rendering Javascript.
>>
>>
>> Arthur - see if this makes any difference with Firefox for you. I does for me.
>>
>> Try a site first to compare to later. Then, as 'root' edit /etc/profile
>> add this
>>
>> export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1
>
> SWEET! Firefox is working at Konqueror speed now.
>
> This Pango thing was an anchor.
Good. Glad that helped.
Care for another Firefox tip?
--
David
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