Comment 68 for bug 32561

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 32561] Re: Pango-enabled firefox is much slower

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 08:32:27PM -0000, PascalCavy wrote:
> I think it is related to this bug report because stracing firefox during its loop show lots of font related system calls.

You can easily test this by disabling pango as described in the earlier
comments. It may be an unrelated problem.

> My method to trigger it is having several desktop configured, open several
> TABS in firefox, then switch desktops going back and forth to the one
> where firefox is. Just try it.

This is my usual way of using firefox, and while it sometimes takes a few
seconds to refresh, I've never seen anything excessive like you describe.

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 - mdz