Speed up Firefox with These 6 Simple Tweaks

By Unknown Tuesday, February 21, 2017

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At this point, almost all browsers have similar speed when surfing the reality on the Internet, so "speed" actually comes down to performance and how to use the program. Users of Mozilla Firefox, this means that the right conditions, the right accessories, and management of the tab.

Whether you're already a Firefox user, or switch from Chrome to Firefox, this guide will tell you how to speed up the process. We will be sticking to the latest stable Firefox from the surface of the office for this one copy, although Firefox on Android has some very nice features.

Change Plugins to Click-to-Play

A number of vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash is not funny. If you were not you may uninstall it, you at least need to change it to "click to run" in your Firefox. Not only is this a necessary security measure, but it will also speed up the browsing and Flash elements on web pages are loaded automatically.

You do not need to install any third-party extensions to do so as well. Mozilla gives you a set of additions to click-to-play through its settings. Here's how to do it:

1. Open a new tab and go to Tools> Addons
2. Choose the additions of sidebar
3. Click on the drop-down list next to the button shockwave flash that says "always activated" and change it to "Ask to activate"
4. Optional: You can disable Flash completely by selecting "not activate"

Essential About:Config Tweaks

You can change the complicated settings in Firefox through formations access its menu. A few tweaks Firefox basic already have emerged, but this time, we're going to only those that make the browser work faster focus.

How to Access and Use About:Config

1. Open a new tab
2. Type "about: config" in the address bar, without the quotes, and press Enter
3. Click "I'll be careful, I promise" button
4. Search for any series listed below
5. Double-click the "Status" to change the situation
6. Click anywhere else to save the situation

Once you are in About:Config, change the following preferences to the value indicated by the fact that Firefox runs faster.

1. Set browser.tabs.animate to False
2. Set browser.download.animateNotifications to False
3. Set browser.preferences.animateFadeIn to False
4. Set browser.fullscreen.animate to 0
5. Set security.dialog_enable_delay to 0
6. Set network.prefetch-next to False (Only on slow Internet connections)
7. Set network.http.pipelining to True

You must have your own Firefox now clearly faster, as you disable all animations unnecessary, stopped the countdown when you install extensions, and he had to stop preloading web pages when you're on a slow connection.

Alternately, download and install the disk speed a.k.a SpeedyFox on, a supplement that does the same things, such as disk mentioned above. But hey, why the emphasis on your browser with another extension when you can do the work?

Handle Your Addons

Kill Firefox to fame because of the large collection of add-ons and extensions, and that he enjoys this distinction until today. Unfortunately, the benefits also take up a lot of memory and slow down your browser. For example, there is a documented case of how Adblock Plus memory banks.

We are not here to suggest that you stop using the add-ons. There are some Firefox addons incredible, after all. But you need to manage it.

Determine Memory-Draining Addons

There is a simple supplement, called "about: addons Memory 2016", which shows the memory usage of each supplement you currently have. Install the extension, open a new tab and go to "about: addons memory" without the quotes.

Here, you will see a list of all your addons, and how much memory they consume. It works best when you have Firefox open for some time, it has been used. Once you have your data, and make the changes that you need so that you can install extensions lighter or switch to your orders.

Remove Built-in Firefox Addons

The new version of Firefox integrates addons such as hello and pocket from outside the area, whether you want them or not. I do not know about you, but I have not used hello even once.

Here a quick shortcuts if you think you do not need to step by step instructions of this article:

1. In about:config, set reader.parse-on-load.enabled to False
2. In about:config, set reader.parse-on-load.force-enabled to False
3. In about:config, set browser.pocket.enabled to False
4. In about:config, set loop.enabled to False

Switch to Bookmarklets

We've been saying this for some time now, but you should seriously consider the benefits of using your favorite commands instead of extensions or additions. Favorite orders are lighter and safer, and work just as well as many popular addons.

For example, you can get rid of Annex pocket and install the Pocket bookmarklet Firefox to stop wasting RAM on the pocket until the moment of memory you really need to add a new page. Yes, otherwise, that the extension takes the RAM, even if you do not use.

Manage Your Tabs

Aside from the extension, and the other thing that really slows down the browser is the number of open your tabs. It is all right to have many tabs open, but needs to be handled properly to ensure Firefox does not start crawling. Funnily, you are to accomplish this is a two addons.

You keep a lot of tabs open, but do not always need it all the time. Cars will automatically stop unloading tab tab of eating CPU cycles, RAM, or recharge. You can even specify the maximum number of tabs to load in any session. Right-click on the tab or page to view a context menu with all the options you need. And yes, you can add individual tabs or certain sites on the blacklist so are ignored by dump cars tab. It's one of the comforts options must be to the speed of browsing on the Internet.

OneTab

Oh OneTab, where we would be without you? Available in all major browsers, and this extension is one of the wonderful ways to manage tabs without losing them. One click of the OneTab code and it will close all open tabs and Otold them in the form of a list. You can re-open all the tabs at the click of another, or just keeping the list so it can be opened at a later date. It's a simple way to keep the light of your browser without throwing any open tab and look for it at a later time yesterday.

Have You Switched to Firefox?

BrowserStats report showed that the newer Firefox finally overtook Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Edge narrative, which makes application Mozilla's second most popular browser in the world now. Therefore, we wanted to know, do you switched to Firefox? Do you think you'll use some other browser or stick with it?