How to dramatically speed up firefox without rebuilding anything

["Blair Sadewitz" <blair.sadewitz%gmail.com@localhost>]

I was getting frustrated about how slow firefox was, so I did some
digging and found a solution (assuming you don't need certain kinds of
[international] font support). Run firefox like this:

env MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 firefox &

That's it.  The increase in rendering speed is profound.  Maybe we
should put a note in www/firefox[2] about this?

Enjoy,

--Blair


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