The Firefox browser has always been criticized for its high consumption of resources, which, as we well know, affects the performance especially of less powerful computers, causing slowness and sometimes unexpected "hangs". For this reason, many users prefer to use Chrome, which stands out for being the fastest.
However, there are always some tricks to try to optimize firefoxadvisory, such is the case of disable hardware acceleration what does it consist of? What is hardware acceleration? We will explain it to you below 🙂
La hardware acceleration allows you to perform faster functions and improve performance through the use of hardware, in this case the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), where this feature is present in current browsers.
The issue is that this hardware acceleration It comes by default enabled in Firefox and if you don't have a powerful computer with state-of-the-art hardware, it is unnecessary and causes the problems mentioned in the introduction to this post. Therefore, it is recommended to disable it.
How to disable Hardware acceleration in Firefox
It's very simple, in the menu Options > Advanced go to the tab "General”And in the section“Navigation"Uncheck the option"Use hardware acceleration when available”. The following image summarizes the process.
Personal experience
I have tried this "trick" on an old computer already, with 512 of RAM and a 2.0 Ghz processor and in truth the change has been noticeable from the first moment: Firefox startup is now faster, it does not crash when loading many tabs and page loading has been optimized.
It's a matter of testing, I invite you to check it out for yourself and tell us about your experience ...
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Thanks for the info….
To you Erick for the comment, I hope it has been useful to you 😉