Firefox: Performance Tweaks

[sebasje]

A user suggests a couple of configuration changes to make Firefox run smoother. Video playback should already be improved, but there are a couple of other, potentially useful options to enable.

Go through them one by one and evaluate whether they're worth preconfiguring.

from: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4535

[star-buck]

Firefox Preferences:

• Privacy and Security: disable both options under "Firefox data collection and use", so to speed up performance and not send any data
• Untick the “Use recommended performance settings” box, then use the dropdown to increase the Content process limit as far as “7.”

[star-buck]

about:config:

• browser.cache.disk.enable false
• browser.cache.offline.capacity -1
• dom.animations-api.element-animate.enabled = False