On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 06:53:04PM +0300, Arttu V. wrote > >> Thus equipped, I copied both mozconfig-3.eclass and >> mozcoreconf-2.eclass over to a local overlay, modified their hardcoded >> --enable-pango statements into --disable-pango's, re-emerged both >> packages (xulrunner, firefox), and now about:buildconfig shows among >> other things: >> >> <snip> >> Configure arguments >> --enable-application=xulrunner --enable-optimize --disable-installer >> --disable-pedantic --enable-crypto --with-system-jpeg >> --with-system-zlib --disable-updater --disable-pango --disable-svg >> --enable-system-cairo --disable-strip --disable-strip-libs >> --disable-install-strip >> </snip> >> >> There it is, --disable-pango. > > Thanks for the explanation. I've got pango disabled now. I'll see > what else I can get rid of. > >> Arttu V. -- Running Gentoo is like running with scissors > > Gentoo is a really sharp distro<G>.
AFAIR many years ago (in firefox 1.x days) Pango was already the cause of many people's slowdowns, it was also slower the more fonts you had installed on your system. Back then, you could disable Pango at runtime by doing: export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 Maybe it still works.
