Make Firefox Faster : AIO |
Advantages of Making Firefox Faster by this method
This is ultimate guide that will covers the all the proper and effective steps you need to follow to make Firefox run faster if your browser browsing slow.- This method provides the booster to the Firefox workflow.
- Improves the loading of Web Pages.
- Removes the heavy load on Firefox.
- Reduce memory requirement by using minimum part of RAM.
Make Firefox Faster
Before reading all the following steps first you have to backup the setting as well as the profile of the Firefox. In case you don't know how to backup the Firefox, just read this topic: Backup Firefox: Simplest Method Ever. These are best tips and tricks to speed up Mozilla Firefox & to have faster browsing experience. Before starting, you need to open Configuration Tab in Firefox:1. Open Firefox and type in address bar: about:config & press enter.
2. Now the Firefox shows the warning as:
3. Click on "I'll be careful, I promise".
1. Speed Up Firefox by Browser History
In the new address bar, means in tab window in front of filter;type browser.sessionhistory.max_entries

Type: Integer
Value: 50
This means that the browser keep the history up to 50 URLs. You have to change it to minimum value. For this double click on it. This will opens a new pop-up message with value 50, now change 50 to 10. This will reduce the load to browser
2: Easy Way to Make Firefox Load Pages Faster
Now right click on white space below the address bar in tab, go to new >> Integer >> enter Preference name as nglayout.initialpaint.delayPress OK and enter the value 0.
Now Onwards the page will show as soon as it gets downloaded.
3: Double Your Internet Browsing Speed by Defining Small Amount of Memory to Firefox
a. Similarly type: browser.cache.memory.enable in same address bar in tab.And set the value to TRUE.(Most of the time it is False)
b.Now right click on white space below the address bar in tab, go to new >> Integer >> enter preference name as browser.cache.memory.capacity, press OK.
Now put the value according following table.
RAM | VALUE |
128MB | 2048 |
256MB | 4096 |
512MB | 8192 |
1GB+ | 12288 |
4: Boost Firefox By Enabling Its New HTTP Cache Set the Cache Capacity
Generally the Firefox wants more RAM to work as well as for cache purpose, and we have to reduce this usage of extra memory for caching the data.Type browser.cache.disk.capacity
You will notice that; the value: 102400 (or something like this)
Change it to 4096.
5: Regain Memory when Firefox is not in action
Why the memory is to be keep for the Firefox when it is minimize state. To avoid this overflow of memory for Firefox;Right click on white space below the address bar in tab.
Go to new >> Boolean >> enter preference name as config.trim_on_minimize, press OK,
And set the value to TRUE.
6: Stop Prefetching
Now type network.prefetch-next.You will see that its value is set to True.
Change this to FALSE (only double click on it).
After all these steps, restart the Firefox. And then you will see the boost in the speed as well as the stability of the Firefox along with the memory improvement.
Note: These tips are also tested on CometBird and Wyzo browsers.