Konqueror vs Firefox

[David Boles]

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?


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   David