Make Firefox fast again
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Recommended Extentions:
uBlock Origin
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
Settings
Make sure the following options are off:
Disable pre-fetching
Rationale: Not doing this will significantly slow down navigation, as Firefox won't prefetch any content before clicking.
JSLibCache
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/jslibcache/
Settings
Make sure the following options are on:
Allow header modification
Rationale: Otherwise many Javascript libraries won't be fetched from local storage - as they have parameters on their URLs in the HTML code. This isn't going to break any website.`
Make sure to copy the uBlock rules provided, to your uBlock settings, to avoid uBlock interfering:
- Go to the
uBlock rules
- copy them
- Open uBlock's
Dashboard
- Go to the
My rules
tab - Paste them & hit
Save
, thenCommit
Cache Longer
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cache-longer/
Set and forget.
Rationale: Increases the time items will be stored in the browser cache. This increasing the chance that network ressources won't need to be fetched. As NVMe/SSD storage is cheap and lightning fast compared to network requests, this has the potential to improve load times significantly.
Recommended Browser settings
Normal Browser settings
- Go to about:preferences#privacy
- Select
Custom
- deactivate all filters in this section
- Scroll down to
Security
->Deceptive Content and Dangerous Software Protection
- Disable
Block dangerous and deceptive content
Rationale: Those filters use a lot of CPU time to process, and are not very helpful - except for newbies. The Dangerous Software
filters may actually even block downloads the user want to fetch, that's why it is recommended to disable these.
about:config
settings
General tweaks
network.captive-portal-service.enabled = false # don't try to find captive portals
network.notify.checkForProxies = false # don't try to find proxies
Browser cache
browser.cache.disk.capacity = 8192000 # Increase cache size on disk to 8 GB
browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled = false # force a fixed max cache size on disk
browser.cache.frecency_half_life_hours = 18 # lower cache sweep intervals
browser.cache.max_shutdown_io_lag = 16 # let the browser finish more io on shutdown
browser.cache.memory.capacity = 2097152 # fixed maximum 2 GB in memory cache
browser.cache.memory.max_entry_size = 327680 # maximum size of in memory cached objects
browser.cache.disk.metadata_memory_limit = 15360 # increase size (in KB) of "Intermediate memory caching of frequently used metadata (a.k.a. disk cache memory pool)"
GFX rendering tweaks:
gfx.canvas.accelerated = true
gfx.canvas.accelerated.cache-items = 32768
gfx.canvas.accelerated.cache-size = 4096
layers.acceleration.force-enabled = false
gfx.content.skia-font-cache-size = 80
gfx.webrender.all = true
gfx.webrender.compositor = true
gfx.webrender.compositor.force-enabled = true
gfx.webrender.enabled = true
gfx.webrender.precache-shaders = true
gfx.webrender.program-binary-disk = true
gfx.webrender.software.opengl = true
image.mem.decode_bytes_at_a_time = 65536
image.mem.shared.unmap.min_expiration_ms = 120000
layers.gpu-process.enabled = true
layers.gpu-process.force-enabled = true
image.cache.size = 10485760
media.memory_cache_max_size = 1048576
media.memory_caches_combined_limit_kb = 3145728
media.hardware-video-decoding.force-enabled = true
media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled = true
Increase predictive network operations
network.dns.disablePrefetchFromHTTPS = false
network.dnsCacheEntries = 20000
network.dnsCacheExpiration = 3600
network.dnsCacheExpirationGracePeriod = 240
network.predictor.enable-hover-on-ssl = true
network.predictor.enable-prefetch = true
network.predictor.preconnect-min-confidence = 20
network.predictor.prefetch-force-valid-for = 3600
network.predictor.prefetch-min-confidence = 30
network.predictor.prefetch-rolling-load-count = 120
network.predictor.preresolve-min-confidence = 10
Faster SSL
network.ssl_tokens_cache_capacity = 32768 # more TLS token caching (fast reconnects)
Disable network seperations
fission.autostart = false # disable enhanced protection between threads/processes of the browser (which uses LOADS of memory to do)
privacy.partition.network_state = false # don't seperate the network state (e.g. the cache) by top level domains)
Reduce the number of processes
dom.ipc.processCount = 1
dom.ipc.processCount.webIsolated = 1
Rationale: By default Firefox launches as many processes as you got CPU cores. This is highly counter productive, as this leads to much more memory usage as necessary. In addition switching tabs may now result not only in having to load the content back from the swap into memory, but also swapped in duplicated libraries etc.
Finishing touches:
- Restart firefox
Go to about:support then scroll down to "Places Database" and select "Verify Integrity". This will rewrite the database.
Scroll up again and select "Clear startup cache" on the right side.
- Restart firefox
Nice to have extensions
I don't care about cookies
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/
Set and forget.
Bypass Paywalls Clean
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywalls-clean/
Automatically bypass some paywalls.
Downside: Needs often new permissions, if an update adds a site to the supported list. - You'll get notified with an ! mark on your "hamburger menu" icon.
Consent-O-Matic
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
Set and forget.
Cookie AutoDelete
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/
Go to settings and make sure the following are off:
- Show Notification After Automatic Cleanup
- Enable Support for Container Tabs
SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
Configure skip categories to your likings.
Changelog
2023-07-07
- add browser.cache.disk.metadata_memory_limit
- Remove "cache cleaning" from finishing touches (as it's not really necessary and confuses people)
2023-04-15
- set layers.acceleration.force-enabled to false (as it may increase CPU usage)
2023-02-26
- Remove uBlock Origin's
Disable hyperlink auditing
unckecking recommendation (no idea why I've added that) - Organize Settings for Add-Ons under headlines
- Improve explanation of how to apply JSLibCache's uBlock rules
- Add Rationale to some settings, to avoid that people have to google
- Fix
browser.cache.frecency_half_life_hours
- Minor changes/fixes to formatting
- Reduce process counter down to one
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