Re: FireFox slowness
BartlebyScrivener <bscrivener42@gmail.com>:
> On May 31, 4:00 pm, Carl Fink <c...@finknetwork.com> wrote:
> > Anyone else seeing absurdly slow responsiveness from iceweasel,
>
> Not that slow. But it's definitely much slower than running Firefox on
> XP. It's a shame. On the other hand it might inspire me to try linx
> and others and see what text browsing is like.
>
> Anybody pure text folk have tips or recommendations for how to
> proceed?
This was mentioned by others recently (many thanks!):
export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1
As for pure text, I like w3m.
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