Firefox problem

[Cyber Source]

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
>