Accordingly, Mozilla will begin automatically blocking Flash content deemed unessential for its users beginning this August. As the company continues to improve upon the stability, security, and battery life of its browser, Flash has been steadily moving towards the chopping block as a direct result. However, you can further speed up Firefox by adjusting the aforementioned about: config settings and switching off add-ons and plug-ins.Mozilla has announced through a blog entry that it will be gradually ending support for Adobe Flash on its Firefox browser.
So now you can give Firefox a considerable speed boost! The QuickJava and Fasterfox extensions alone will do that. That effectively switches the setting on, and you don’t need to restart Firefox. Then enter ‘1’ in the text box and click OK to close the window. The setting you need to adjust here is _new_backend, so enter that in the search box.ĭouble-click _new_backend to open the window shown in the snapshot below. You can switch on this new HTTP cache via about: config, which reduces UI hangs and could give the browser a marginal speed boost. You can speed up Firefox a little more by double-clicking that setting and entering a higher figure in the Edit integer value window such as 8.Ī new cache is something in the works for further Firefox versions, but it’s not a default setting yet. In addition, input ‘’ in the search box, which has a default value of 4. Enter ‘’ in the search box and then double-click that setting to switch it to true if you have a proxy connection. You can also select some other pipelining options. Then double-click the setting to switch it to true. The Fasterfox Turbo Charged/Strong option switches pipelining on, but you can also do it with about: config settings.Įnter ‘’ in the about: config search box.
So that’s something which should boost page load speeds. Pipelining enables Firefox to establish connections with multiple servers.
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