I am sure that if you are a developer in some language or at least do HTML coding, then you use Mozilla Firefox browser because the tools that this browser offers cannot be provided by any browser available out there in the market. Here I am going to share my personal experience how I was able to speed up my browsing experience 200000000 times using the below trick. I am sure if you use this method you can speed up Mozilla Firefox Browser performance up to 200000000 times.
Open your Mozilla Firefox browser and then type in the address bar about: config. After that when you hit Enter you will see a warning message. Stating that any changes made on this page may result in an abnormal behaviour of your browser. I assure you that I use this trick and there is not a single issue, hence do not worry and click on the button that says I’ll Be Careful, I Promise.
Search in the box available for network.prefetch-next and you should be able to see a setting for that. Double click on the setting that showed and make the value false and then hit confirms or okay. Now you might have the question that why this setting helps in speeding up the Mozilla Firefox browser performance.
I have the answer for it, and the reason is when you search for something your browser downloads the search items and then show the search to you. But when you set it to false it disables the loading part, thereby Speed Up Mozilla Firefox browser performance.
Type browser.cache.disk.capacity & as it comes in the “Preference Name” box double-click it. Now, this time, a box will open where you can put some integer value. By default, it will be 50000. Now set it to 358400 If your RAM is greater than 1 GB or set it to 5000 if your RAM is less than 1 GB.
You have to do this because Mozilla Firefox uses up a very high percentage of your RAM (sometimes up to 3 digits in Mb) so by assigning the values you can limit the RAM usage of Mozilla.
Now create a new Boolean parameter in the config page. To do this, you have to right-click anywhere on the config page then point your mouse on “New” & then click Boolean. An editable box will open enter config.trim_on_minimize there. After this type the same in the filter box & double-click it to set its value to true. This will help to free your memory whenever you minimize your browser, i.e.; it will not use that much of RAM as it uses while it’s maximized.
Now close the browser tab where you have opened the about: config page. And enjoy faster browsing. So here are the steps as promised which will Speed Up Mozilla Firefox browser speed up to 2000000 times.
Let me know if you are aware of any other tricks in the comments section, and I will be happy to include the ones that are not listed in this article. Also, let me know after changing this if your browsing speed is increased or me writing Speed Up Mozilla Firefox article for your help is actually of no help since it did not Speed Up Mozilla Firefox performance for you in the comment section below.
I have got some comments saying how do I know this? Well, the answer is that I do these on my laptop. And test it if it makes any difference. Once I see the difference then I publish the post. So be sure to assume that I am doing this everything on my own first before telling you guys to do it. Should you have anything else, you can contact me or put comments below for me to check and update on the steps to Speed Up Mozilla FireFox.
I am a 33-year-old gentleman from a lower-middle-class family hailing from a small village Narasinghpur in Cuttack, Odisha, INDIA. I have a post-graduate degree in M.Tech from BITS Pilani. I started blogging back in June 2014. You can check out my journey and all that I have learnt all these years on my website.
This post was last modified on September 3, 2023 7:28 PM
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much needed information....thanks for sharing.....
Thank You.
The trick seems to be working fine but unfortunately, I'm a chrome user which means I would need to learn chrome trick to boost its loading time.
Please let me know how can I speed up my chrome browser.
Chrome hogs the data like anything bro.
Hi Prabhudatta,
I have read your blog post a-z. It's a awesome tips for increasing speed for Mozilla Firefox browser.
Thanks for writing this type of blog post.
THANKS A LOT. REALLY WORK.GOOD JOB..10 STARS
Thanks Marcel. You made my day buddy. Thanks for stopping by, appreciate it.
Doesn't work worth a damn. I already had half of these settings implemented and all the pipeling commands inputted. Firefox is STILL taking anywhere from 85-97% on my RAM.
Hey Tony, The tricks are for to improve the browsing experience. If you could export the settings of your system and send me then I will be able to provide you the exact settings you need to do to make sure that MF is working fine without eating up much RAM. Do let me know the import area from where I can download and I will help you sorting this issue out.
This made a HUGE difference for my browser. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much Victoria for stopping by. I am glad it helped.
I can't see all the images in this article, and which are take a long time to display
If you are trying in mobile then it will take some time as per the changes applied in Google search. However, in desktop or laptop browser it depends on your internet connection. Should there the issue be present for a long time feel free to drop an email to me using the contact page.
The non boolean values here are either lower or the same as the default values in current version firefox (47).
Though it might be shared with my Nightly build, so maybe i'm wrong.
Can you share a screenshot with me and I could take a look?
yes it actually works, I have tried and done each and every step and it works. Thank you so much for sharing this man, I would recommend this to every Firefox user.
Perfect! Efficient! Thanks for sharing man... After doing every step that is mentioned I am seeing the speed increase. Absolute helpful.