If Firefox has been feeling sluggish for you lately, you might be able to cut down on some of those UI hangs with an about:config tweak.
The
Mozilla team is working on a number of performance tweaks for upcoming
versions of Firefox, one of which is the use of a new HTTP cache that
should fix some UI hang issues. It isn't enabled by default yet, but
will be soon—and you can enable it right now with an about:config tweak.
To do so:
- Enter
about:config
into Firefox's address bar and press Enter. - Search for the
browser.cache.use_new_backend
flag and double-click on it. - Change its value from 0 to
1
to enable the new cache. (You can flip it back at any time by changing it back to0
). - Close about:config and continue browsing—no need to restart or anything.
Source: http://lifehacker.com/speed-up-firefox-by-enabling-its-new-http-cache-1570488335