Firefox: Disabling PANGO helps improve FF speed
I have quite a decent notebook with 2GB RAM but run under Ubuntu 9.04, my Firefox 3+ seems to wear down my whole system. Thus I googled around the net to find a solution and … tataa! Here it is:
Just add the line
export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 firefox
to your environment (e.g. .bashrc in your home directory). I noticed [...]
Why using xdebug is a good idea
Recently I came across the xdebug extension for PHP. This one is very useful if you do a lot of PHP coding and need more tracing and variable output for debugging than just var_dump() or print_r() and have no time and nerve to code your own debug functions.
Just install xdebug (under debian or ubuntu you [...]
