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Those who use Firefox on a low-end laptop or any such low-spec machine, what tinkering have you done to get the best experience? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Firefox has been improving drastically in terms of performance with every release. It's pretty evident in recent months, which is very heartwarming to be honest.

I, however, do to some bad circumstances, have been stuck with a not-so-good laptop (8 GB RAM, a 6th gen processor in AMD A8 7410) and Firefox doesn't run that well on it. This is something that I've observed with Firefox- if you have a decent machine then it will run amazingly fast. However, on lower-end machines, performance can be a struggle AT TIMES.

Any tips on making this browser run at it's best potential on a weak system are appreciated!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use this about:config settings to tweak FF performance on Android and Desktop

browser.tabs.useCache: true dom.script_loader.bytecode_cache.strategy: 2

browser.cache.jsbc_compression_level 0-9

You can set the value to 5 for modest performance

Note :

I use thinkpad X240, Core i5 gen 4, 8GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, Windows 10 (debloated)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Seems like I've finally found a fellow human being who uses a modest system like me, haha. Similar specs, and I too use a debloated version of Windows 10- it works very nicely.

Thanks for these recommendations- I'll try these out right now and see how it goes.