When your browser runs very slowly, you can take hours and hours trying to do the same action on the same website and not see any results, you may even have to abandon the load for a while and try again later. This is something that is not favorable and especially if you are investigating something that you have to deliver immediately.
What a headache this can be. That is why we have thought of you, this time we bring you a simple guide so you can stop living with this burden on you. Many say that a fast browser is a place where you really become a cybernet and although you can blame the speed of the internet, more blame will be on this.
Next we will explain with some tricks, what you have to do to make it work in its optimal conditions, such as, for example, one of the options is to clear all that cache that is saved in your browser, but just like that option there is plus. Follow the steps in the proper order, since they are in the order of importance, in other words each one is for a more complex case.
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Accelerate your browser Firefox is not something of the other world, use the tips that we will leave you below so you can enjoy what you love so much (that this is really fast).
Update Firefox to its latest version
Mozilla has the peculiarity of updating automatically by default. You should know that at the moment this is executed the applications and the errors that it owns or possessed are immediately solved.
You can deactivate this configuration to do it manually if you prefer, you can see everything about how to update Mozilla Firefox here. To know what its latest version is and download it correctly, visit its website Mozilla.org
Disable those plugins you don’t need
Although many of the plugins are beneficial to your browser, when you have many of these and are no longer necessary, make your browser lose speed. If you have some that you don’t use, we recommend that you temporarily disable them.
It usually happens that sometimes these are installed by default, but there are also others that are installed when you download applications or programs on your PC.
In order to see the plugins or extensions that you have installed, you need to type in the address bar about: addons and then press the Enter of your keyboard. This will show you a sidebar where you must choose the “Plugins” option.
Disable all extensions and those topics you don’t use
In order to do so you will search the “Menu” in the browser, there you will find “Options”, in the window that opened select “Extensions and themes” .
In that place you can check those that you have installed . Although these are not bad, since they are known as addons, one of the most important functionalities and Useful Firefox, when these are in excess make this work less normally.
If you have some conflicts in the browser and suspect that an extension may be the cause, manually disable it one by one.
You can also run safe mode with all add-ons disabled for this. To do this, you open the “Menu” and choose the “Help”> “Restart with the add-ons disabled” option. If you don’t see the option, use the F10 key.
If before you want to know how much capacity you have, we recommend the Mozilla extension called About: addons-memory , it allows you to know the memory that each one consumes the add-ons or extensions you have installed. Although it is a paradox for being one more, it is really worth it when you have several and you need to know if one exceeds consumption.
When you enter in the address bar the about: memory, command shows you a report of the use of this, of course, full of technical parameters that you will not understand (if you do not know the subject). But once you install it, the extension will show in an orderly and more understandable way the amount of memory each consumes.
Delete those temporary files in Firefox
All browsers save the data of the websites you have visited in a file called a cache, to ensure a quick loading of pages in case you visit them again.
On some occasions these can cause errors due to being corrupted the cache that was saved. Even more so when the volume of stored data is large, since it makes the browser’s startup slower.
The easiest way to clean it is to open the Mozilla browser, press «View history, saved bookmarks and more» > «History»> «Clear history Recent » and check the following boxes.
- Browsing and download history.
- Forms and search history.
- Cookies.
- Cache.
- Active sessions.
- Site preferences.
Remove the history websites
You have to know that history is very important, but many do not want it since occupies a large space and prevents effective navigation. While you enjoy the web, everything you have visited, files downloaded and others stay in this. So many times too much information makes it slow down.
To be able to delete them use the «Control + Shift + H», keys so that the history window can be opened. Then you position yourself on the site that you are not interested in and want to forget and press the three points and click on «Remove from history».
Restore modified Firefox preferences
In many occasions the preferences that you can or have modified in the browser, can be the cause of the conflicts that you have.
To know that you may have altered the Firefox settings, enter the address bar About: support and then press enter, there you will see a list of altered preferences.
If you want to return the original value to manual preferences, but you don’t know what each of those values means, help yourself with the config descriptions extension to do so.
Enable or disable hardware acceleration
The Firefox browser makes use of hardware acceleration to improve the performance of some content. In order for it to work properly it is very necessary to keep the video card drives of your PC updated.
To verify if you have this function installed in your browser, do the following:
- In «Menu» go to «Options», in the tab that will open select «General». In the “Performance” section make sure the option that says use hardware acceleration is checked.
- You can also do it by right-clicking on any flash element, and selecting consequently Configuration
In case of having conflicts due to drivers of the video card of the device, you will need to temporarily disable the option we mentioned.
Create a new test profile in Firefox
If you already tried all the previous tricks and you cannot completely solve the efficiency of the browser, you will have to choose to create a new browser profile or instance.
In order to do so, you will have to do the following:
- Open the tools « Run (Windows + R)», and type Firefox –CreateProfile test and press enter.
- To Open the Firefox instance with the new profile, enter Firefox.exe. –P “test” and test the browser.
- When finished if you want to delete the new profile called test, open the «Profile Manager». For that you enter in Execute: exe –ProfileManager. Choose the profile you gave it by test name and delete it.
Reset Firefox to its factory settings
If creating a new profile has also failed to resolve conflicts, you can take the solution to completely reset the browser to its original parameters.
- To do so start Firefox with the Shift key pressed, this will throw a window in a safe way.
- Check only the box that says “Restore all user preferences” and use the “Apply” changes and reboot.
- After version 14 of the browser a new button is included called «Reset Firefox», that returns the program to the initial configuration.
To find it use the following methods:
- Another way to locate it is «Menu»> «Help», «Information to solve problems».
This button returns the browser to its default settings. A new profile is created and all the data of the bookmarks, passwords, cookies and form are migrated. The rest remains in the default values.
Use the extensions to keep the equipment clean
This is a trick that will undoubtedly give you the solution to your problem. This is to use the multitude of extensions and add-ons that are available to use Firefox, these can be used to keep the browser clean and work quickly.
Click & Clean
This is an extension that makes it easy for you to delete all your browsing history, as well as delete those temporary files from the Internet and others such as downloads, cookies, LSOs, addresses and more.
If configured in this way, when you finish using the browser and close it, your private data will be deleted immediately. This allows you to protect your privacy and at the same time make the browser faster and more efficient.
SpeedyFox
We could not fail to mention this famous extension. It is a very reliable complement that guarantees you better performance of your browser.