Will Firefox no longer be named Firefox?
Constantine Evans
constantine at evanslabs.org
Thu Sep 28 02:34:32 BST 2006
Ivan Krstić wrote:
> Scott wrote:
>> 3) It simply runs faster *much* faster than what you get from Ubuntu
>
> You certainly have numbers backing up such a bold statement; please do
> share! If there are actual performance problems with the Firefox debs we
> ship, it'd be great to know about them so they can be promptly fixed.
>
When pango support is enabled, firefox is *much* slower. Ubuntu uses
pango for firefox in certain situations, usually when certain locales
are generated. There is hard data backing up this statement in the bug
report about this (Ubuntu used to *always* use pango for firefox)-
scrolling is around two to three times faster with pango disabled. The
official builds never use pango.
Constantine
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