{"id":206752,"date":"2017-04-12T09:58:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T07:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=206752"},"modified":"2017-04-12T09:59:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T07:59:20","slug":"firefox-will-let-you-control-memory-usage-and-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/206752-firefox-will-let-you-control-memory-usage-and-performance.html","title":{"rendered":"Firefox will let you control memory usage and performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla is working on a new performance settings section for Firefox, reported\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/software\/firefox-will-add-a-settings-section-that-lets-you-control-performance-\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BleepingComputer<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The section will allow users to change various preferences which impact performance, such as the maximum number of Firefox processes.<\/p>\n<p>Changing the number of Firefox content processors will allows users to limit the amount of memory used by the browser.<\/p>\n<p>Users will also be able to control whether the browser uses UI animations and page prefetching.<\/p>\n<p>The performance settings page will also include a button to optimise Firefox performance, which disables all extensions.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/201864-new-firefox-supports-webassembly.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">New Firefox supports WebAssembly<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla is working on a new performance settings section for Firefox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":197481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4930,41536,42530],"class_list":["post-206752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-mozilla-firefox","tag-performance","tag-settings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206766,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206752\/revisions\/206766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}