FS#4053 - Firefox, XULRunner should use XFT instead of Pango

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Friday, 24 February 2006, 00:11 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Friday, 24 February 2006, 06:48 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

With Pango reenabled, performance seems quite terrible in Gecko-based browsers, with delays during rendering and a lot of CPU overhead. Why was Pango enabled again in favor of XFT?
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Friday, 24 February 2006, 07:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 24 February 2006, 07:51 GMT
Because pango renders international fonts much better than Xft. You can disable pango by using MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 firefox. Same goes for gtkmozembed applications. Epiphany 1.10 will have the MOZ_ENABLE_PANGO=1 flag, if you don't set it it will disable pango and use Xft.

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