On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 20:31 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried that page and my procesor goes to 47%, but when i tried > the same on Opera, goes justo to 7%, so give Opera a try, i really > dont know why Opera uses less micro power on almost all kind of pages. > > regards, > > Guillermo. > > > On 6/17/06, Nigel J. Terry <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > That is really strange. When google is loaded 7% of the cpu is used, but when the site above is loaded 78% of the cpu is used by firefox. Very strange. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
