Is Firefox running slow? You can improve performance by making some adjustments to its settings

Two days ago we gave you the adoption figures for Microsoft Edge More than 330 million active users is a number that may seem very good. And in fact it is, something that however does not serve to hide that it is still far from Google Chrome and Firefox. And the latter is the protagonist now.

And the fact is that with 500 million users, it is the second most used browser, mainly due to the versatility and options it offers . Some options largely fostered by the use and growth of extensions that increase their possibilities, although they may reduce their effectiveness.

We can thus find ourselves with an application that devours system resources to function in a way that ends up affecting its optimal performance, each time heavier. This deteriorates the user experience, which becomes not the most appropriate.

In this sense we can adopt some measures and make Mozilla Firefox recover the lost speed on our computers.

Manage cache

And first of all we can go to control our browser's cache memory. It is about reducing the Firefox Cache Memory, which has been increasing in size with use, occupying more space in our system.

We are therefore going to delete the data that is in the cache memory with the aim of lightening the weight of this file so that it it costs Firefox less to execute the instructions.

We then find a notice. Be careful if we're a little big-handed and don't know what we're playing.

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In this case, we must type the following address in Firefox (without the quotes) “about:Config” and in the window that offers to look for the line browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer, in which we must modify it with the value 0 Just double _click_ or use the right mouse button "

Goodbye plugins and extensions

The second step is forget the extensions and add-ons that are not necessary And we think so coldly, of all those that we normally have installed, we only use a few. The rest are generally useless and only serve to slow down our computer.

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To do this we access the Settings in the upper right part of Firefox and within it we look for Accessories."

We must eliminate all those that are not really necessary.

Improve page loading

We are going to improve the speed with which Firefox loads web pages. To do this, our goal is to enable pipelining and thus make the browser make more than one request to a web page at the same time.

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To do this in Firefox we write again about:Config and in the new window (after the warning) we look for the entry network.http.pipelining and change its value to true (just double _click_)"

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Now we look for the line network.http.proxy.pipelining and in the same way we change its value to true. "

Locate the entry “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” and change the numeric value to 10.

Improving RAM usage

Optimizing the use of RAM memory is the last step we can carry out. In this sense, we seek to minimize the impact of Firefox on the use of our computer's RAM. And again we do it by means of a command.

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We will open Firefox and write in the search bar about:config but now instead of searching for a line we will have to press the right button mouse or _trackpad_ then choosing the New yes/no option."

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A new window will open in which we will write config.trim_on_minimize setting the value as True ."

We save the changes and restart the browser.

With these three adjustments we can improve the performance of Firefox, something useful especially in those computers that have the tightest resources.