How to make Mozilla Firefox faster on Ubuntu

One of the complaints that many users have about Mozilla Firefox is the slowness of the web browser compared to other browsers. This is due to the fact that every time web browsers are heavier programs with more internal functions that make them more difficult for the computer to run.

However, the latest version of Mozilla Firefox brings an improvement that will allow the web browser to be faster than before, no external plugins or difficult settings.

The trick to making Mozilla Firefox faster is on enabling hardware acceleration of the web browser. This type of acceleration is disabled by default in Gnu / Linux, a feature that will change in Mozilla Firefox 57, but now we can change it and make Mozilla Firefox faster than before.

Mozilla Firefox can use hardware acceleration for faster performance

To do this, we first open Mozilla Firefox and we write in the address bar «about: config»After this we press the enter button and a screen will appear with various parameters and configurations related to the Mozilla Firefox configuration.

Now we have to search for the following line (we can use the search box of the web browser)

layers.acceleration.force-enabled

This line will be followed by the value «False», this value must be changed to True or True for the acceleration to start working. This will cause the hardware acceleration to be used by Mozilla Firefox and therefore the web browser to run faster. However this has a problem.

In some systems, hardware acceleration does not work and enabling this could cause serious system problems, so before activating this trick, we have to make sure that hardware acceleration is supported. In any case, there are more tricks that will make Mozilla Firefox faster than before, some of these tricks we already tell you in this article.