For me, on a pretty fast x86_64 system, firefox-2.0.0.12-1.fc8 is pretty much unusable by default in Fedora 8. Setting MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 fixes it. I don't mean "it's kind of slow", I mean loading even basic pages seems to take many seconds and spin up my CPU fan, and switching to a workspace with Firefox open will take a few seconds to repaint. While if I disable Pango, it repaints instantly. Basically with Pango enabled it seems to be 1000% or so slower, not say 50% slower. We're talking order of magnitude. If this is something everyone is experiencing (how could it be my setup?), I think it's something of a showstopper bug.
Adding Behdad, since I think he wrote/fixed the pango integration.
Owen rightly points out that the first choice is to figure out what's wrong with the pango support ...
Well, I imagine not everyone has this problem, or we've had got hundreds of reports. I also have a hard time imagining how it could be a x86_64 issue... It works fine on my x86 F8. How about a root-run fc-cache -f? Only thing I can suspect is freetype rescanning all fonts every time. But have no plausible explanation for that either.
Havoc, I trust you understand that this bug is not even close to be perfectly reported yet -- how can I reproduce it? I am working with Firefox all day every day and I just cannot reproduce many-seconds loading of loading even basic pages. Please, try harder to get some more about your environment, so that we can reproduce it here -- your description is so general that (unless we overlook couple of thousands reports per second about this, Behdad is right in this) there is no way for me to reproduce it. Anything interesting about your environment, something strange about your network connection, using proxy?, any plugins (could you reproduce this with firefox -safe-mode?), is it absolutely every page in the world (let's say http://www.google.com, http://www.w3.org) or there is something unique about the pages which are affected by this? Thanks a lot for any response. Matěj
Hi guys, I did go on IRC first and ask "is this just me?" and all I got was a suggestion to file it - so, if it's not just me, I _did_ ask before filing ;-) That said, I can't reproduce it anymore; I did a yum update at one point, it's possible that fixed the font cache or something of that nature. I will let you know if it happens again.