Tweak Firefox for better performance

Most of us love using Firefox. It can be said that it is the best browser out there. Availability of various plugins makes it even greater and more useable. Normally Firefox is a bit ordinary but using rich library of plugins and extensions makes it perfect. So let’s talk about some tweaks and tricks that you can apply in Firefox in order to increase your Firefox performance.

If you have been using Firefox for sometimes than you should have noticed that Firefox consumes high amount of memory. This makes it slow to start. To fix this do this steps:

(1)   Type about:config into the address bar of Firefox and then press Enter.

(2)   Then a warning appears; Press Button “I’ll be careful, I promise!”

(3)   Then right click on the screen and select “New” and then “Integer”. When dialog box appears enter the following string: browser.cache.memory.capacity and then press ok.

(4)   After this you will get another dialog box; in that just enter this number 16384. Than press ok and you are done.

(5)   Restart Firefox and you will notice the difference immediately.

Regarding the number we put in step (4); it is a memory size of 16MB which we have defined. This 16MB is

the amount of memory that Firefox will use after the modification. This is a great modification that you can do to reduce Firefox loading time. If you have a lot of plugin installed than you have to follow this steps to make Firefox more responsive and make it load faster. I hope it helped you. Clear Private Data ( shortcut ctrl + shift + delete ): Clearing private data regularly is a great security tip.

Some more ways to improve Firefox performance

• Remove addons: If you are not using any addons that is present in your browser, you might wanna consider removing it or at least disable it if not in use. This will increase your firefox load time significantly.
• Increase cache size: By default, only 1 GB storage is allocated for cache but you can increase it so that more data will be readily available on the machine and browser doesn’t have to make more HTTP request. Go to Tools –> Options –> Advanced –> Network and increase your cache size there.
• If you have these addons, you might wanna remove or disable these because various tests have shown that they increase the Firefox load time significantly. Addons are listed from most impacting to least on launch time (FoxLingo, Firebug, AniWeather, Flashgot, FoxClocks, Foxytunes, Video Download healper, FastestFox, Xmarks sync, Similarweb).

The most important trick for improving Firefox performance is to disable Addons that you rarely use.