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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 [...]

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Posted on 30th October 2009No Comments
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 [...]

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