It is the compositor that powers Firefox and the Servo browser engine project. WebRender is a high-performance, GPU-accelerated 2D rendering engine written in Rust. $ ps -e | grep 'Web Content' 13991 tty1 00:00:04 Web Content In this case the Content process limit for the current user has been increased to 4: However you may want to manually adjust this setting to increase performance even further or decrease memory usage on low-end devices. Īdjusting these settings can be done in Preferences or by changing the value to 1-8 and to false manually in about:config. For additional information see these MozillaZine articles.įirefox automatically uses settings based on the computer's hardware specifications. This section contains advanced Firefox options for performance tweaking. Note: Listed options may only be available for the latest version of Firefox. Improving Firefox's performance is divided into parameters that can be inputted while running Firefox or otherwise modifying its configuration as intended by the developers, and advanced procedures that involve foreign programs or scripts.

4.16 Prevent the download panel from opening automatically.

4.11 Disable WebRTC audio post processing.4.10 Run Firefox inside an nspawn container.4.3 Change the order of search engines in the Firefox Search Bar.4.1 Force-enable hardware video decoding.

3.7 Disable middle mouse button clipboard paste.2.2.8.3 Change the GTK theme for content process only.

2.2.8.1 Override input field color with CSS.

2.2.8 Unreadable input fields with dark GTK themes.

2.2.7 Remove sidebar width restrictions.

2.2 General user interface CSS settings.

2.1.2 Default font settings from Microsoft Windows.

1.8 Cache the entire profile into RAM via tmpfs.

1.7 Defragment the profile's SQLite databases.

1.6 Longer interval between session information record.

1.3 Stop urlclassifier3.sqlite from being created again.

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