[Inkscape-user] font selection performance

I used another piece of software for a project instead of Inkscape because of the long wait before I could see the font list after starting to select from the font drop down menu. Is there any way for me to improve the performance via some setting?

I am using Inkscape .45.1 on Mac OS X 10.4.9 PowerPC 1.33 GHZ with 1 GB RAM. No other problems on the system.