Konqueror vs Firefox
Arthur Pemberton
pemboa at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 17:06:57 UTC 2008
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:02 AM, David Boles <dgboles at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
Sure... I still like Konqueror though.... not a big fan of Gtk for
that level app. But Firefox is a much more "understood" online
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