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Hacking/improving Firefox performance
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Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life!  :54:

For a few months now, I've been using Firefox in a daily basis, in fact, I'm writing this from it. Thing is, I noticed it kind of started to become slower, and then I'm back to chromium, which is my primary browser and IMHO it's a bit faster, but I do like some FF features, so I started searching for some "hacks", tips, tricks or whatever to try and see if I could improve its performance, and found this https://mastransky.wordpress.com/ though it's focused on Fedora's FF package, it does provide some good advice on tweaking Mozilla's browser to get the best out of it. So I read  most of the recent posts, tried some recommendations and am currently running FF with these settings:
Code:
# "plain" OpenGL gfx.canvas.azure.accelerated (boolean) true gfx.xrender.enabled (boolean) false #true conflicts with webrender layers.accelerate-all (boolean) true layers.acceleration.force-enabled (boolean) true # WebRender gfx.webrender.all (boolean) true gfx.webrender.compositor (boolean) true gfx.webrender.enabled (boolean) true # VA-API media.ffmpeg.dmabuf-textures.enabled (boolean) true media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled (boolean) true media.ffvpx.enabled (boolean) false media.ffmpeg.low-latency.enabled false media.navigator.mediadatadecoder_vpx_enabled false media.rdd-ffvpx.enabled false media.rdd-vpx.enabled false widget.dmabuf-textures.enabled (boolean) true

To apply those, go to about:config in FF, click on I accept the risk message/warning and start typing in the search box each of the above, set the value to either True or False as appropriate, restart Firefox and that's it. After applying those, I've seen a significant improvement in FF's performance, for instance, when I clicked the X button, it took a while to close, now it doesn't and closes almost instantaneously  :003:  This is also another good source of info https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_de...x_problems

Well, I hope this helps someone else if having issues with FF's performance like I was  :55:

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