On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:51:09AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > Firefox's use of Pango is to blame. Other gnome applications are not > that slow to display text, though contrary to all bug reporters I don't > find Firefox particularly slow... > That will hopefully change when they'll use the cairo backend.
I was dubious myself at first; performance complaints about large GUI applications don't generally merit close attention. However, in this case, it was a severe regression from an earlier release, and I was able to see an extreme and measurable difference myself by toggling the environment variable. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/32561 is the relevant Ubuntu bug report. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
