Unless you want to be on the "Bleeding Edge" you might simply want to drop
back to FC4, which is what I have done. I thinl a lot of the problems with
FC5 are associated with the 2.6.16 kernel series, and or wholesale changes
that Fedora made somewhere that has broken backwards compatability both with
some types of hardwear as well as softwear. I only wish that someone at
Fedora would catch a clue and *fix* these problems -- that or if it is in
the kernel itself [ as opposed to a Fedora mod of the kernel -- hard to tell
] then I wish the kernel maintainers would *fix* the bloody kernel. There is
NO reason why programs that both install and run under the 2.6.15 kernel
series should no longer install and/or work under the 2.6.16 (under both FC4
and FC5) series. I am *hoping* -- as is my buddy -- that Fedora and/or the
kernel maintainers -- will fix these problems by the time FC6 comes out.
From: "Nigel J. Terry" <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Firefox eats all my processor power
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Motor wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:12:48 +0100, Albert Graham wrote:
Type "about:" as the URL and if the screen mentions anything about
MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO, then Firefox is not picking up your export or it has
gone.
export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 should be put in your local/global profile,
you should not modify the firefox script as that get's upgraded.
Thanks... but it looks like Pango use was definitely disabled. (the env
var is set in ~/.bashrc). It still feels slower than before the recent
firefox update though.
I'm biting my tongue a bit, because FC5 has been a complete mess from my
point of view. Broken sound card, GTK/GNOME performance plummeting with
the introduction of Cairo, Evolution still crashing regularly when I quit
while using the "Empty trash folders on exit" option. I've been an RH user
since 1999, but I'm giving serious consideration to switching to another
desktop and another distro.
Anyway... thanks for the advice.
I also have a problem with firefox eating all of my cpu. It only
happens with some pages, try:
http://free.grisoft.com
When I open this page, Xorg and firefox between them eat up >90% of
my processor power. I've tried with or without PANGO and it makes no
difference
Any ideas?
Nigel
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