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Tricks to emulating a Firefox fast-startup without using third parties?
(Windows 11) Firefox starts up significantly slow (when there aren't any windows already open) compared to Chrome and Edge, which seem almost instant. (I've tried without any add-ons/extensions, so ...
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Optimizing Firefox I/O regarding storage-sync-v2.sqlite-wal file (storage-sync-v2.sqlite database write ahead log file)
In my experience, Firefox creates a storage-sync-v2.sqlite database in each of its profile folders. This appears to happen even if profile syncing is disabled (and has never been enabled).
What's odd ...
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Bookmarklets executes slow in the background
I have a bookmarklet that jumps down (basically sends end repetitiously) to scroll down the feed on web sites that uses an "infinite feed" (e.g., Facebook, Quora). For obvious reasons, most ...
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How do I put minimized windows to complete sleep (no CPU usage) on Windows 10?
The title says it all. Basically, I want to stop specific minimized programs in the background from running, for example, a high-CPU program minimized while I work on Firefox. How may I do this on ...
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Is it possible to have Firefox use more than 1 CPU core in Windows?
According to the Microsoft Windows Task Manager, Firefox tends to just use 1 CPU core for most of its processing.
When a system isn't running any foreground tasks besides Firefox, this leaves much ...
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Automate a periodical "Minimize Memory usage" on Firefox
During many years using Firefox and forks and I've realized that sometimes Firefox gets slow and sometimes unresponsive.
Workaround, going to about:memory, and clicking on "Measure" button ...
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Google Chrome runs too slow vs. Mozilla Firefox
I have both Firefox and Chrome installed in a Windows 7 device.
Firefox works very well and it doesn't hangs and it's also super fast.
BTW in playing videos firefox in all of my devices is slow and ...
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Why is Google Chromium so much faster than Mozilla Firefox in Google's Octane 2.0 benchmark?
It is crazy that my CPU is getting 45744 score in Octane 2.0 benchmark when it's is running on Google Chromium. On the contrary, the same Octane 2.0's score is 34406 when it's run on Mozilla Firefox. ...
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Firefox suddenly became very slow on my Ubuntu PC
I just finished backing up ~100GB to an external hard drive, during which my computer was very unresponsive even though my CPU and memory usage were very low and my operating system is installed on a ...
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Sometimes tabs take long to open, with the firefox loading animation appearing for a long time
Sometimes tabs take long to open. I keep seeing the loading animation firefox has for the tab but it takes long to disappear. This can sometimes be for 3, 5, 10 or 30 minutes.
Disabling or enabling ...
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Firefox high virtual memory consumption
I am using Firefox 73.0 (64 bit) on Ubuntu. I was very happy with that until a few weeks.
Today, Firefox is taking too much of the available memory and make my system almost unusable. I have browsed ...
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Debian: How do I stop Firefox from lagging if on battery power?
I'm running Firefox ESR 68.4.1esr on a Debian 10 ("buster") x64 system. If it's relevant, the machine is a Thinkpad X1 Carbon 4th generation.
When I'm on battery power, Firefox is extremely slow to ...
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What is taking my SSD to 100% utilize with the extremely slow read speed?
Recently, I found significant slowdown of my Firefox cold startup on my PC with SSD drive. Previously, my Firefox could cold start in less than 2 seconds. Now, it could take from 30 seconds to 1 ...
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Recently versions of firefox/palemoon have been really slow to start
Both Firefox and Palemoon have been starting super slow on my i3 manjaro recently. Can take more then a minute before I see any screen. It runs fine after it has started up.
I am at a loss to ...
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Measuring impact of gpu acceleration on rendering time of websites
How can I measure what, if any, speed up website loading times during webbrowsing with Firefox (or Chrome) an added dedicated graphic card (Nvidia GT 1030) provides over an old integrated one (Radeon ...
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