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by John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

Enable Tracking Protection to Speed Page Loads in Firefox

May 27, 2015

Let’s face it. We grow more and more impatient when our technology is slow. That’s why we upgrade phones, computers and even cars because things take longer than we have patience for. Not to fear. Apparently, you can even speed up page loads in Firefox if you enable Tracking Protection. Tracking Protection is optional with Firefox, but tests found that it can reduce page load times by 44%. That’s a pretty good improvement.

To enable Tracking Protection in Firefox:

  1. Type about:config in the location bar.
  2. Hit the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button to continue to the next step.
  3. Scroll down to privacy.trackingprotection.enabled. (yes the list is alphabetical)
  4. Double click the selection to change the default from disabled to enable.
  5. Enjoy faster page loads.

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