Firefox problem

[Robert F. Stockdale IV]

I did this and it took away some of the Firefox extensions I had 
installed. Pango is installed and it may have been the problem. Not sure 
yet. I'll give it a few days of testing. Just finished compiling an 
updated kernel this morning and had been waiting til that was finished 
prior to following your suggestion. Thanks for the tip I'm hoping it works.
Bob

Cyber Source wrote:
> I had a problem with Firefox yesterday. The problem was I installed an 
> app called mail-notification, (with yum) which I believe installed a few 
> other things. I then noticed that Open Office would crash if  I tried to 
> you the open dialog within ooffice. I traced the problem to gtk2, which 
> I then upgraded via yum and installed a bunch of other packages (namely 
> pango). My ooffice was fine, problem fixed, however, I then went to use 
> firefox and all my text would not show, same thing for thunderbird. 
> Needless to say I was like WTF??!!. Anyway, my son Jesse who is always 
> on the cutting edge of things here said, "oh, I know what that is" and 
> fixed it in 2 seconds on my pc. Both /usr/bin/firefox and 
> /usr/bin/thunderbird (or whereever you executables are) contain 2 lines 
> that need to be uncommented, they are;
> MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1
> export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO
> This happened because the pango package got installed/upgraded with 
> gtk2. Anyway, I thought this might be relevant to you as before I 
> started the mail-notification and the subsequent yum installs, my 
> firefox was a bit slow, not to the extremes your seeing but it might be 
> a clue.
> 
> Robert F. Stockdale IV wrote:
> 
>> Hi Everyone:
>>     I'm currently running Firefox on a Gentoo 2005.0 system. I have 2 
>> Athlon 1800+mp processors with 1 gig of ram and a 3 (36,7 gig each) 
>> disk scsi drive system. Most everything runs extremely fast. All 
>> Windows pop up instantly and close just as quickly. I have an 
>> All-in-Wonder 128 graphics card. However, Mozilla Firefox works fine 
>> for a short while but then takes forever to redraw a screen. This is 
>> most noted when I go to a different desktop (Gnome) say to check my 
>> email then return to the desktop that Firefox is running on. Most 
>> times I have to kill the processes that Firefox is running then 
>> restart it. I sometimes have Epiphany loaded as well and it never has 
>> a problem redrawing the screen. It however will not connect properly 
>> with cups for printing. I prefer using Firefox, but it is getting very 
>> aggravating to have to restart it all the time. Any one have a 
>> suggestion?
>> Thank you.
>> Bob
>>
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