Firefox 1.5 issues

[Simon Goodall]

This seems to have solved my probs. Been running fine since I set that var.
thanks,
	Simon

Motor wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:26:53 +0200, Boris Glawe wrote:
> 
>> I can confirm, that firefox hangs for seconds while it locks up the
>> whole gnome desktop when visiting some pages. This is a strange thing,
>> that I've never experienced before in older FC Versions.
>>
>> It's not crashing though. Except the high CPU usage it does what it's
>> excpected to do.
> 
> Try:
> 
> $ MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 /usr/bin/firefox
> 
> It seems to have cured the problem for me. I was hoping for a faster Pango
> myself, but FC5 seems to be a major step back in that regard. I don't know
> whether it's the change to using Cairo... but the much-talked about
> performance improvements in GNOME seem to have been thrown away.
>