By Achilles Hill | Last Updated
When you use a browser for a long time, it might slow down and even malfunction, such as add-ons crash and fail to load the webpage. Under such circumstances, your productivity will decrease accordingly. However, your account critical data will risk losing if you intend to reinstall Firefox to troubleshoot. Worry not: this document will explain four ways to make your Firefox performance speedy.
Mozilla Firefox regular renewal solved some potential issue, optimize user's experience. Therefore, relative to the old version, the performance of latest version is definitely the best. To automatic make your Firefox up to date, you can walk through the following steps to set up.
Step 1: On the top-right corner, click on three horizontal lines and select Options from the drop-down list.
Step 2: Click on General in the left sidebar, scroll down and check on "Automatically install updates (recommended)" option under Firefox Updates section.
Tips: Users who tend to get update notifications can also choose the item of "Check for updates but let you choose to install them" according to their own needs.
Firefox provides the function of add-ons automatic updates. To turn it on you can reduce the interruptions. A few of users are inclined to install numerous add-ons this will give rise to browser slowing down. So it admits of no delay to update add-ons and disable the useless one. Here is the detail.
Step 1: Click Menu on the top-right corner, then tap on Add-ons.
Step 2: In the Add-ons Manager tab, click on Extensions from the sidebar. Tap on the gear shape, tick on the Update Add-ons Automatically.
Step 3: Choose the useless add-ons and click on Disable. When you need to use it, you can enable it again.
HTTP Pipelining is the technique of sending multiple HTTP requests to the entire batch without waiting for the server to respond. This is a hidden future that you need to switch it on manually. Doing this will help Firefox improve the speed to load a page. Opening HTTP Pipelining is extremely easy operation.
Step 1: Open Firefox, input "about:config" into the address bar, without quotes, and hit Enter.
Step 2: The prompt will pop up to remind you of "This might void your warranty!" then click on "I accept the risk!" button.
Step 3: Once you have entered the configuration area, paste "network.http.pipelining" in the Search bar and press Enter. Double-click on "true" to set it to "false".
Caching is useful but also flawed so, if the Firefox still has a slow reaction to you, try to cut down some UI hangs by enabling HTTP Cache.
Step 1: Type "about:config" in the Firefox's URL bar and press Enter.
Step 2: In the Search bar, input "browser.cache.use_new_backend" and search the flag.
Step 3: Move your mouse over to the "0" and right click to change the value to "1".
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