Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular web browsers among users. Millions of users are better known about this browser and its user experience. Mozilla is said to be easy to use and the fastest web browser on the internet. Due to the rapid service and user-friendly interface, it is famous among its users.

As this is a popular web browser, due to lots of users it gets a heavy load or sometimes due to user customization, this browser slows down. This affects the user experience and users eventually complain about its slow service. This slow service is temporary and it is very easy to fix it manually.

If you’re facing this type of issue while using Mozilla firefox then here are some easy steps to fix this issue. Be relaxed, follow these tricks, and make your web browsing faster again. Let’s discuss its cause and its easy fixations.

Why Mozilla Firefox Slows Down?

There are a lot of reasons which affect the speed of your mozilla firefox. It causes by customizations, using extensions, and plugins, due to slow internet services, un-updated browsers, and so on. There are many ways to fix this issue manually. These steps are simple and effective try these steps and make your mozilla firefox fast and efficient.

Steps to Fix Mozilla Firefox

Given below are tried and tested methods to fix the web browser. Without wasting time let’s go through each technique and get the best results.

Step: 1. Always Update Your Mozilla Firefox

This is one of the most common reasons for mozilla slow down. First, check your mozilla firefox updates and if there is the latest update available then without wasting time update your web browser first.

• • Go to your mozilla firefox user interface
  • Click on the “setting option or symbol” given at the right corner of the webpage
  • Here comes another page that has the option of “Manage more settings” below all the options

• • Now click on “Manage more settings”
  • Here comes another page with so many options, just click on “General mode”

• • Scroll down in this General section and look for “Firefox updates”
  • Click on the “Firefox updates” option and check your web browser updation
  • In this section, your current browser updation is given along with its update history and its latest version

As soon as you update your web browser it makes mozilla faster than before automatically.

Step: 2. Refreshing Mozilla Firefox

This is another simple method to make your web browsing faster. The app provides the option of refreshing for users. Go to the option and click on refreshing the app.

• • Go to three dashes at the upper right corner of the web browser search page
  • Now click “Help” from the bottom

• • Now click on “More troubleshooting information”

• • Here comes another page of the “Refresh Firefox option”
  • Click on it and refresh your Mozilla Firefox

• • Click on “refresh Firefox” and that’s it

Step: 3. Clearing the Mozilla Cache

Clearing the cache, history, and cookies also helps in speeding your Mozilla Firefox. In this, we clear all the unwanted storage from the browser so that the browser gets enough space and runs faster.

• • Click on the three dashes at the upper right corner of the browser page
  • Go to “settings” first

• • Click on the “Privacy & Security” option and scroll down

• • Here we get the “cookies and site data” section
  • Now click on “clear data”
  • Once the data is cleared then scroll down again

• • Now we get the history section here
  • Click on the “clear history”
  • The cache, cookies, as well as history, is cleared
  • This process can be done repeatedly after a week or month

Step: 4. Closing Unused Tabs

If you are a multitasking guy then you surely experienced this case. So many tabs running in the background of the webpage, and sometimes we forget to close them, or sometimes because of laziness. This slows down the browsing speed. For such purpose, you can fix it manually or you can use some add-ons for this.

If you want to fix it manually then follow the steps:

• • At the upper bar of the screen, you will find all your tabs which are running at the back of your screen
  • Close these tabs one by one with the help of a cursor by clicking on the cross mark on them

Step: 5. Memory Usage Minimization

Less memory usage is the best way to prevent the slowdown of web browsers. It can also help in boosting up the web browser.

• • Go to the address bar and type “about memory”

• • Click on “minimize memory usage” from the free memory section
  • Once you clicked on the minimize memory then automatically browser minimizes the memory usage

Step: 6. Turning Off the Browsers Accessibility Services

This can also help speed up your website by turning off the accessibility or permissions of various devices and conductors. Less the browser accessibility more is the browser speed.

• • Here, click on three dashes and click on ‘setting’ options

• • Now go to the privacy & security section
  • Look for “permissions”

• • Under the permission section, we have a variety of permission settings.
  • Go to these settings and turn off the accessibility of permissions
  • Load the mozilla firefox again and restart it, you will feel some speed betterment

Step: 7. Setting Up the Default Browser Theme

Default browser theme can effectively boost your web browsing speed. It has been found that theme customization affects the speed of the browser actively. Hence, if you want to boost your mozilla then switch on to the default theme of it.

• • Click on three dashes and select the option of “Settings”
  • Go to the general section and scroll for “language and appearance”

• • Here, set all the given options in default or automatic setting

Step: 8. Turning Off the Mozilla Firefox Data Collection

Data collection plays a major role in speeding up your web browser. It is the collection or storage of your data from your browsing history or regular searches. Turning off such data storage is the best way to control browsing data.

• • Click on ‘Settings’ from the right corner as usual
  • Now, go to the privacy & security section

• • Scroll down for “Firefox Data Collection and use”

• • Ensure that all the boxes given for filling are blank
  • Do not fill or tick any of these boxes of the options
  • Now, restart the Mozilla Firefox

Step: 9. Disabling the Add Ons

Add-ons are useful for Firefox in many ways, but downloading so many add-ons may affect the speed of the web browser. It is found that third-party add-ons have a great impact on web browser speed. Disabling some of these add-ons helps us to boost the speed of our firefox.

• • Go to the “Settings” option

• • Click on “Extensions & Themes” from the left corner
  • Check your all extensions or add-ons and select one which has no use or less use

• • Remove or manage such extensions one by one

Step: 10. Mozilla Firefox Advanced Configurations

Mozilla firefox provides many advanced configuration options to users. This help boosts the browsing speed. Below are given the steps for these configurations try them and speed up your firefox.

• • Go to the address bar and type “about config”
  • You will get the new interface

• • Search individually for the preferences which are given below
  • After configuring these you can also Check in the “show only modified preferences”

• • Make all the changes according to the following list
    • Set toolkit.telemetry.updatePing.enabled to false
    • Set security.dialog_enable_delay to 0
    • Set toolkit.telemetry.firstShutdownPing.enabled to false
    • Set browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry to false
    • Set browser.download.animateNotifications to false
    • Set toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabled to false
    • Set network. prefetch-next to false
    • Set browser. ping-center. telemetry to false
    • Set browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry to false
    • Set toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled to false
    • Set toolkit.telemetry.shutdownPingSender.enabled to false
    • Set toolkit.telemetry.enabled to false
    • Set toolkit.telemetry.hybridContent.enabled to false
    • Set toolkit.telemetry.newProfilePing.enabled to false
    • Set toolkit.telemetry.reportingpolicy.firstRun to false
    • Set toolkit.telemetry.unified to false

Wrapping Up

Hopefully, all these steps or methods helped you to solve your concern. If you have not tried these steps yet then hurry up and boost up your mozilla firefox within a couple of minutes. Even after using all these methods if you’re not getting better results then check out your wifi, and an internet connection, or switch to another web browser. Thanks for being with us.