Linux:Firefox: Speed up your Firefox

Some people have Firefox speed problems on Linux since Fedora 15
I found some possible ways to eliminate them.

Before you try this options – please be sure that your browser addons are disabled. It could be a good point to reset your browser settings
You can do this with “firefox –safe-mode“.

- Start your firefox and type “about:config” in the URL field.
Use a filter like “layers“. You should get 2 hits. (“layers.acceleration.force-enabled” and “layers.acceleration.disabled“)
In this case set “layers.acceleration.force-enabled” to “true”
and
“layers.acceleration.disabled” to “false”

- change the value of “network.dns.disableIPv6” to “true”

- Set “webgl.force-enabled” to “true” (If you have problems with HTML5)

- Install the newest device driver for your graphics card.
- Updating your Firefox and xulrunner from official repos.

- A smaller browser window size can also affect the speed.

- set browser.tabs.animate to false
Disables all tab animation features e.g. when you click the ‘New Tab’ button to make the tab interface feel faster

btw. This cannot fix all of the speed problems – but Firefox should be a little bit faster now.
In some cases “layers.acceleration.force-enabled” must be disabled. You have to play with the options. It depends on your graphics card.

NF