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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