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Firefox Internet Browser

Firefox Sync

Favorite Add-Ons

To keep the cursor focus from jumping to the address bar:

  1. In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk
  2. In the search box in the page, type or paste handoff and pause while the list is filtered.
  3. Double-click the browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar preference to switch the value from true to false

High CPU Utilization

Disable Use hardware acceleration when available for a user:

Firefox → Options → Advanced → deselect the option Use hardware acceleration when available

--disable-gpu

All Users

:!: This is very important for RDS servers.

mozilla.cfg

:!: The mozilla.cfg file needs to start with a comment line since this line will be skipped.

// place this file, including comments, in the installation directory with firefox.exe

// Smooth Scrolling Disabled
lockPref("general.smoothScroll", false);

// Disable GPU hardware accelleration
lockPref ("gfx.direct2d.disabled", true);
lockPref ("layers.acceleration.disabled", true);

local-settings.js

// place this file in the defaults/pref subfolder of the installation directory
pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0);
pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla.cfg");
internet/browser/firefox.txt · Last modified: 2024/09/26 11:13 by gcooper