On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:51 AM, David Boles <dgboles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > 2008/3/7 Brian <Brian.Mingus@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> Sunspider: http://webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html > >> > >> This doesn't benchmark everything, but javascript is important to me as I > >> use apps such as Gmail constantly. Since these apps tend not to work in > >> Konqueror anyway, they may not be relevant to you. But anything Konq does in > >> javascript is way slower than other browsers. > > > > According to that test, Firefox is significantly faster than > > Konqueror, but as you noted that this for Javascript only. And I have > > to say, I seriously doubt the usefulness of this test. I know for a > > fact that Firefox on my Fedora machines is significantly _slower_ than > > Konqueror at rendering pages -- which to me is more important than > > rendering Javascript. > > > Arthur - see if this makes any difference with Firefox for you. I does for me. > > Try a site first to compare to later. Then, as 'root' edit /etc/profile > add this > > export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 SWEET! Firefox is working at Konqueror speed now. This Pango thing was an anchor. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
