Speed up Firefox and its Video Performance

20 October 2018

Firefox is one of the very popular browsers.   Unfortunately,  it has set its browser performance for common notebook and PCs that usually have lower end CPU and  limited RAM capacity.   Nowadays,  many users have upgraded their notebook and PCs.  Faster notebook and PCs with bigger RAM capacity  is now a norm rather than an exception.  There is a need to release the power of Firefox for better performance.  This article will cover 2 improvements that will make Firefox run faster with better video performance. 

What are these 2 Improvements ?

1.  Making use of excessive RAMs to improve the speed and response;

2.  Making Firefox spending lesser time saving and storing its WebPages;  thus, improving the  response and video performance.

How?

Step by Step	Action	Click picture to enlarge
I)  Improve Firefox's Speed and response
1.  Opening up Firefox configuration panel	Type [about:config]  in the url box.  In the next screen click [I accept the risk]
2.  Search for keywords	Type [browser.cache.disk]  in the Search box and change the value of the item from [True]  to [False]
3. Search for keywords	Type  [browser.cache.memory] in Search box Check that   [memory.enable] is set to [True]
4.  Add new Preference Name	Right click mouse and select [New], Enter in the box [Integer]. In the [Preference Name box]  enter [browser.cache.memory.capacity] as shown.  After that change [0] to [<-1><-1>-1] which will allow PC to manage the memory capacity
II)  Improve Video Performance
1.  Search for keywords	Type [(browser.sessionstore.interval] in the search box and change Value from [<15000>15000] <15000> to [60000] to allow more time to save and store Webpages.   If needed be,  use [100000] if one does not have more webpages opened at the same time.<60000><60000>

Results

 1.  There is no test program or apps available to test the speed and response of the browser but one can notice that Firefox will open up the Google panel much faster

2.  As for the video performance,  the following is the test.  

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