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[20070323] Faster Firefox
Found via DragonFly BSD Digest and the NetBSD News Beat, there was a mail on pkgsrc-users@ that describes how to speed up firefox by disabling some codepaths:

 env MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 firefox & 
I don't have numbers, but it does feel faster, on a 800MHz PC running NetBSD 4.0_BETA2/i386 with firefox2-gtk1. Thanks Blair!

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