A Few Tips to Make Your Firefox Fast

[yigido]

Hello friends,

I do not know are there any people use Firefox or Firefox based browsers, against Chrome or its clones
Anyway, I am still using Firefox I mean Cyberfox
I want to share some about:config tricks to make your Firefox faster and privacy concerned.
If you are using Cyberfox or Palemoon, maybe some tweaks already applied.

Lets take Performance first
Write about:config into URL bar and click "I promise ..." and set the values as I show below.

• browser.tabs.animate false

- It will disable the animation of tabs and you will browse faster between tabs.

• network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 32

- which means Firefox can request data through 32 different channels rather than 4 channels

• browser.display.show_image_placeholders true

• network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 8

After that, maybe you can disable "Smooth Scrolling" this made my Firefox laggy on Twitter & Facebook and some other pages, so try disabling this option maybe it will make you feels better
Then, please use Firemin, you will be surprised of its performance. It is a little portable tool to make Firefox use less RAM.

Lets take Privacy secondly,

Secondly my privacy settings on Firefox without any add-ons, after that I installed some privacy add-ons which I won't tell them here because we all know what are these.
First of all, I disabled web forgery protection, because it sends data to Google Safebrowsing about your browsing, you can read the GoogleSafeBrowsing policy it is the same policy with Google. Disabling these options may decrease your security but it inscreases your privacy. This is inform to you Palemoon browser removed this feature from their browser because of the reason above. Palemoon users will not see this option.
Open Settings > Security > make your settings as shown in the screenshot.

Aftert that please make your tracking settings as shown in the screenshot below.

dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled - False
geo.enabled - False
network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer - False
network.prefetch-next - False
toolkit.telemetry.enabled - False
privacy.trackingprotection.enabled - True
media.peerconnection.enabled - False (why?)

I hope it will help to you. Please share your experience under the topic. I am wondering what you experience. These settings what I use on my Cyberfox

Cheers,
yigido

 

[Dima007]

Thanks bro

 

[frogboy]

Thanks for sharing this.

All settings done and has helped a bit. Thanks for this.

 

[yigido]

All settings done and has helped a bit. Thanks for this.

Under the hood, these privacy settings are great just inform to you

 

[Viking]

Thanks for the info.

 

[LAGUN]

thx for sharing this.

 

[jamescv7]

Back in the days where I've really wanted to speed up Firefox before but suddenly considering my specifications is very poor (2GB Ram old desktop which is already not used for 3 years from now).

 

[PrMi]

Ty for the tips..

 

[Kent]

@yigido Great info!!! thanks

 

[LAGUN]

i tried this tips and i think it faster than before.
i using palemoon.
thx again yigido.

 

[yigido]

i tried this tips and i think it faster than before.
i using palemoon.
thx again yigido.

Thanks for your sharing experience, I am very happy to help

 

[YuanJiawj]

A good guide! Thanks for sharing @yigido

 

[thepierrezou]

Thanks for sharing

 

[Morro]

Thanks for the tips Yigido.

 

[OC-Rat11]

I just joined the forum and saw this post. Very nice. Thanks a lot.

Also, just wondering if anyone has tried ConfigFox presented here:

ConfigFox

If so, what are your impressions?