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I have latest FF but not as default, so far zero probs
Well, firefox is getting a bit laggy again, especially when loading videos. If i fast forward a video on youtube, the loading circle appears and the video freezes for a few seconds. I solved this last time by reinstalling windows, but its obviously not a good solution. I guess its time to do a fresh installation of firefox, or perhaps a fresh profile?
Also, i may potentially have found a good security tweak. If you set network.http.sendrefererheader to 0 in about config, it will stop websites from tracking your browser activity. I have no way of testing it though. I should probably also mention, that firefox just had an update, and i didnt get any popup message this time, other than a window showing the update progress.
Last edited by Cerawy; 18 Jun 2019 at 04:26.
I've found that for a few sites not sending referrer prevents downloads from those sites but it's no big deal to re-enable.
Firefox 59: Referer Path Stripping in Private Browsing - gHacks Tech News
If you want to apply such tweaks you need to know how to undo them or clean install Firefox in the event of problems.
You can take a look at this for most of the tweaks.
A comprehensive list of Firefox privacy and security settings - gHacks Tech News
Then see these:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/fir...rc=userprofile
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/fir...rc=userprofile
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/fir...rc=userprofile
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/fir...rc=userprofile
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/fir...rc=userprofile
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/fir...rc=userprofile
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/fir...rc=userprofile
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/fir...rc=userprofile
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/fir...rc=userprofile
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/fir...rc=userprofile
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/fir...rc=userprofile
Will be busy until later.
After update to 59.0.2, everything has become normal for me.
Alright thanks, im going to check them out.
Anyway, firefox seems to have gotten slow and laggy again, so i made a fresh profile. It seems that creating a fresh profile gets rid of the lag temporarily, but it always comes back again.
Last edited by Cerawy; 18 Jun 2019 at 04:30.
My problem with Firefox now is that it is consuming so much of my processor, causing my Fan to spin in overload, the noise is phenoninal, constantly running at high speed.