It happens quite often that Firefox users tell me that their browser is not the fastest to start up. I personally do not have the problem at all, but this can be attributed to the solid state drive the browser is installed on, and the fact that I do not run excessive amounts of extensions [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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QuickDrag, Speed Up Firefox Actions With Drag And Drop
The Firefox web browser offers a variety of add-ons that can speed up specific actions in the browser. Actions in this case mean everything that requires manual interaction, like searching for text in a specific search engine, saving an image on a page or loading an url that is not linked properly on the page. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 6
BarTab Speeds Up Firefox, Loads Tabs On Demand
There are two situations in which the loading of tabs can slow down the performance of the web browser; During startup, if sessions are restored and a good amount of tabs need to be restored, and after selecting multiple websites to be opened at the same time, for instance by double-clicking on a bookmark folder. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 8
Speed Up Firefox By Limiting The History
The Firefox web browser will save visited websites for a minimum of 90 days and a maximum of 180 days in the Firefox history by default. The hard limit is set to 40000 websites that are stored in the History. When that limit is reached old history entries will be deleted from the database that [...]