Windows 10: Change Performance Settings for Firefox

How to: Change Performance Settings for Firefox


Information Starting with Firefox Quantum (version 57), there is a new user interface (UI) called Photon.

Firefox automatically uses recommended performance settings that work best with your computer.

If you like, you can modify the following performance settings to customize them how you want instead.

• Use hardware acceleration when available - This allows Firefox to use your computer's graphics processor, if possible, instead of the main processor, to display graphics-heavy web content such as videos or games. This frees up resources on your computer so it can run other applications, like Firefox, faster. This box is checked by default but the feature isn't available for all graphics processors. You must restart Firefox after changing this setting, before it will take effect.
• Content process limit - With Multiprocess Firefox, also called electrolysis or e10s , Firefox runs web content for all tabs separately from the main Firefox process for increased security and performance. Using multiple content processes can further increase performance and minimize the impact of content process crashes. You can modify this setting if multiprocess is enabled; however, having too many content processes can slow down your computer, and consequently, Firefox. The recommended maximum is four, but you can set up to seven.

This tutorial will show you how to change the performance settings of Firefox Quantum for your account in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.


Tip If your computer's system information shows more than 8 GB of RAM, you might want to try bumping up the number of content processes that Firefox uses from its default value. Additional content processes can improve performance when using multiple tabs, but will also use more memory.


Here's How:

1. Open Firefox.
2. Click/tap on the Menu button

, and click/tap on Options. (see screenshot below)


Note If you like, you could also copy and paste the path below into the address bar, and press Enter to go directly to General settings.

*Arrow aboutreferences#general




3. Do step 4 (default) or step 5 (custom) below for the performance settings you want to use.


4. To Use Default Recommended Performance Settings
A) Scroll down to the Performance section in General settings. (see screenshot below)

B) Check the Use recommended performance settings box, and go to step 6 below.





5. To Use Custom Performance Settings
A) Scroll down to the Performance section in General settings. (see screenshot below)

B) Uncheck the Use recommended performance settings box.

C) Check (default) or uncheck the Use hardware acceleration when available box for what you want.


Note You must restart Firefox after changing this setting, before it will take effect.

D) Select the Content process limit (1 to 7) you want, and go to step 6 below.





6. You can now close this Options tab if you like.



That's it,
Shawn

:)

 

Edge Search Does Not Permit Change of Region


I got these suggestions from the Microsoft Community forum.No. 1 worked for me:

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I am glad to assist you on this.
We have reproduce the issue here and we are able to access non-regional search for google using Microsoft Edge.
I would suggest you to try the below steps and check if it helps.
Step 1:
Clear browsing data option of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

1. Click on the More actions icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Project Spartan homepage.
2. Select Settings and click on Choose what to clear.
3. Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files and click on Clear.

Step 2:
I suggest you to create a new user account and check if the issue occurs.

1. Go to Settings.
2. Choose Accounts and then select Family and other users.
3. Select add someone else on this PC.
4. Enter a user name and hit next.
5. Click on Finish.
6. Sign out from the current Account and Log into the new account.

Step 3:
It could also happen because of network issue. I suggest you to try with different network connection and check if it helps.

 

Overclocking / Undervolting guide for Vega 56 or 64?

Here's a quick laundry list:

List of software to use for overclocking and testing
Examples:
Wattman (and how to find and use it, like an overview, including profiles)
Unigine Valley or Heaven (use this for quick testing while changing settings in Wattman and checking for stability / artifacts) ...just suggesting this
How to monitor cores / mem speeds and temps during testing (I've seen screen overlays, and others using GPUz)

Step-by step overclocking in Wattman
Fan speeds
Power limit
Temp limit
Voltages
Core speeds
Memory speeds

 

Display settings changed to enhance performance - crude basic text


Hi there

New to this and clueless so sorry in advance! I have a Sony Vaio laptop running windows 10, about 5 years old. It started to lag a lot so I looked up some ways to enhance performance. Read a few articles online and followed a few steps to speed up my laptop. I cleared out a lot of unnecessary programs and changed some display settings. This all resulted in better performance, but the text on my screen to be reset to crude, basic text. (screenshot attached) I now have a suspicion that this is bad for my eyes and I'm about to start an online course, so I want to change the settings back. Unfortunately, I can't remember exactly what I did.
Here's what my screen looks like



I know that I definitely unchecked this: Automatically manage paging file size for all drives
(read it in an article and followed the steps exactly) and manually calculated paging file size for all drives. Would this have anything to do with my text problem?

Any suggestions of what happened and how to fix it would be great.
I'm also wondering if I change the settings back, if my laptop will return to it's previous slow speed, but I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

 

New FF - passwords


Hi:

If that setting is already enabled, then I suggest as the next troubleshooting step might be Mozilla Safe Mode (not to be confused with Windows Safe Mode)):

Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode | Firefox Help

• Please report back and let us know the outcome, as it will dictate the next steps.
• Also: please tell us what AV/AM/firewall programs are you running on this system?

Thanks,
MM

 

Firefox cookies settings

I'm trying to change the cookie settings in Firefox from "Until I close Firefox" to "Until they expire", but every time I change it, it just changes it back. What's going on?