Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1 RPM

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 20:07:25 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 10:28:33AM -0800, Troy Engel wrote:
>> Maybe Matthias (and others) would have a clue why this happens. I know
>> that the FC4 version does not compile with some extra libraries (cairo
>> and pango) that rawhide/FC5 does; perchance it's these extra libs
>> slowing things down?
> 
> It's almost certainly that. I've found that using cairo slows things
> down a lot. What graphics card do you have, incidentally?

I've just read the release notes for FC5, and found this:

$ MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 /usr/bin/firefox

It seems to solve the speed problem.