
Note that Adblock will make TenFourFox a bit slower generally because it’s a pretty heavyweight add-on, but it’s still an overall win. It also improves performance when interacting with the page. This reduces the wait time for pages to finish loading because fewer documents are fetched, less JavaScript is executed, and the browser doesn’t have to wait for third party ad servers. Block AdsĪdblock Plus/ Adblock Edge will prevent loading of ads. This will prevent GIF animations from looping (or playing at all), thereby reducing processor load (especially on Tumblr), and letting you read text undistracted by blinking stuff in the corner of your eye. Set image.animation_mode to once (or None). You can choose either one, depending on your preference for a blacklist or a whitelist approach, and it doesn’t make much sense to run them simultaneously. Helpful extensions that reduce load on your computer are NoScript ( permits JavaScript on specified websites only) or YesScript ( forbids JavaScript on specified websites). This will give you much smoother playback and will also play H.264 video. You can also use the QuickTime Enabler and/or the MacTubes Enabler extensions to outsource video playback. quit other applications that use the CPU in the background. Also try to let TenFourFox have as many processor cycles as possible, i.e. On YouTube, let the video load completely before playing it – hit pause as soon as you can when the YouTube page is loading. This gives you an instant switch from tab groups to normal windows. Alternatively, you can set to false this leaves the navigation bar always visible.
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This prevents the unnecessary and sometimes slow animation when switching to full screen.

Giving up waiting for the tab closing animation to finish” messages.

This way, creating and closing tabs will be instantly. Native OS X menus do this with better performance, but the Firefox/TenFourFox XUL interface isn’t quick enough to make it enjoyable on slower Macs. This prevents resizing and fading-in of the content when switching tabs in the preferences pane. This makes dragging images faster by showing a thin frame instead of the complete (transparent) image. Set nglayout.enable_drag_images to false. Scroll down to the respective settings or use the search field on top. Hit return and confirm that you’ll be careful. First, type about:config in the address bar. If you want to optimise TenFourFox, here is a collection of simple settings to make it snappier on G3, low-end G4, and single-processor G5 Macs.

But whether on a G3, G4, or even a slower G5 processors, it needs a bit of tweaking to optimise performance. TenFourFox is an amazing browser and is responsible for keeping the PowerPC platform alive.
