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Some config options to make Firefox faster (updated)
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Over time, I collected some options to make Firefox really fast. | |
WARNING! NO WARRANTY, use on your own risk! | |
If you know what you're doing, go to 'about:config' and edit the listed values accordingly. | |
Hint: Double-click boolean values to toggle true/false. | |
########################### | |
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general.smoothScroll = false | |
############################ | |
browser.display.show_image_placeholders false | |
browser.tabs.animate false | |
ui.submenuDelay 0 | |
network.prefetch-next true | |
network.http.pipelining true | |
network.http.pipelining.ssl true | |
network.http.proxy.pipelining true | |
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 8 | |
network.dns.disableIPv6 true | |
network.http.max-connections 48 | |
network.http.max-connections-per-server 16 | |
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy 16 | |
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 8 | |
content.notify.ontimer true | |
content.switch.threshold 750000 | |
nglayout.initialpaint.delay 0 | |
config.trim_on_minimize true | |
browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers 0 | |
browser.cache.memory.capacity 65536 | |
(new Integer) content.notify.backoffcount 5 | |
(new Boolean) plugin.expose_full_path true | |
(new Boolean) content.interrupt.parsing true | |
(new Integer) content.max.tokenizing.time 2250000 | |
(new Integer) content.notify.interval 750000 | |
########################### | |
More aggressive options: | |
network.http.pipelining.aggressive true |
pipelining is removed in firefox 54
network.http.max-connections-per-server
does no longer show up in Firefox 66.0.1
Does it still work if you create it as an Integer preference manually?
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Why set
network.dns.disableIPv6
totrue
?Looking it up, it says that it might even speed up the connections, although it's also stated to be a possible placebo.
Also, what exactly does
plugin.expose_full_path
do to help speed up things? I couldn't find any relevant information regarding that key, and it's not even a measurement for hardening the browser. So why change the value?