====== Speed up Firefox ======

If Firefox is slow, try following:
  - Refresh Firefox
  - Install Add-Ons
  - disable Javascript (not recommended)

===== 1. Refresh your Firefox =====

If you refresh Firefox, the history, tabs, bookmarks, passwords, formuladata & cookies will be kept.

Enter **//about:support//** in the address pane and click on **Refresh Firefox** (Firefox restaurieren).

{{:windowsuser:firefox_restaurieren.png?1000|Firefox restaurieren}}

===== 2a. Install Add-Ons =====

  * Enter **//about:addons//** in the address pane.
  * Enter //**Ublock**// in the search field (right edge above).
  * Click on Install, to install the UBlock Add-on.
  * <del>Enter //**adblock edge**// in the search field (right edge above).</del>
  * <del>Click on Install, to install the Adblock Edge Add-on</del>
  * <del>Enter **//Flashblock//** in the search field (right edge above).</del>
  * <del>Click on Install, to install Flashblock 1.5.18.</del>
  * You may have to restart Firefox, to activate the add-ons.

==== 2b. Configure Add-ons to load by click ====
Normally the installed add-ons will be active when you start Firefox. In case of Flash or Shockwave you should change this configuration to //**ask to activate**//.

{{:windowsuser:asktoactivateaddon.png|}}

===== 3. Disable Javascript =====
If you have done the above steps, and Firefox doesn't speed up, so should check, if Firefox performs better, when you disable Javascript.
To do so, follow these steps: 

  * Open a webpage with a lot of javascripts, i.e. [[http://www.spiegel.de|Spiegel]], [[http://www.morgenpost.de|Morgenpost]], [[http://www.tagesspiegel.de|Tagesspiegel]]
  * Notice the time to load the webpage
  * Enter **//about:config//** in the address pane.
  * Search for **javascript.enabled** and toggle it to **False**
  * Quit Firefox and start Firefox again
  * Open [[http://www.spiegel.de|Spiegel]], [[http://www.morgenpost.de|Morgenpost]], [[http://www.tagesspiegel.de|Tagesspiegel]] again and check, if the webpages load more faster.

Hint: A lot of webpages doesn't function properly, when javascript is disabled.

When Firefox performs better when Javascript is disabled, so you should install the Add-On **NoScript**. But, especially at the beginning, you have to allow javscript for every (wanted) webpage.