Speed Tweaks

Speed up your browser with 7 tweaks via toolbar popup.

Speed Tweaks: Enhanced Browsing Speed for Firefox

'Speed Tweaks' is a Firefox add-on aimed at markedly improving your browser's speed. The extension offers seven different tweaks, each designed to optimize your browsing experience. These tweaks range from blocking common ads and prefetching DNS, to loading mobile version of sites and discarding all inactive tabs from memory. 'Speed Tweaks' offers you a choice to selectively enable these tweaks as per your browsing requirements, thereby ensuring optimal performance.

Add-on stats

By: Benthum
Users: 976
-20
Rating: 3.48
(33)
Version: 0.1.3 (Last updated: 2020-09-13)
Creation date: 2017-12-24
Weekly download count: 50
Firefox on Android: Yes
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • privacy
  • *://*/*
  • webRequest
  • browsingData
  • notifications
  • webRequestBlocking
Size: 53.02K
URLs: Website

Other platforms

Speed Tweaks (v0.1.6)
4.31 (26) 7,000
Speed Test (v1.24.05.22)
3.11 (118) 213,565
Speed Tweaks (v0.1.6)
4.70 (3) 2,870
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Add-on summary

Speed Tweaks is an addon that help you speed-up your browser by using seven different tweaks. Simply open toolbar popup UI and mark a desired item (or click on the desired tweak for action buttons). Please note that, none of these tweaks are selected by default.

Currently there are 7 tweaks available for this addon:

  1. Blocking most common ads.
  2. DNS Prefetching.
  3. Blocking images from loading.
  4. Speed up rendering on page scroll.
  5. Loading mobile version of sites.
  6. Discarding all inactive tabs from memory.
  7. Clearing the browser's cache.

Note #1: depending on your browser version and platform, this addon might behave differently.

Note #2: in order to report bugs, please fill the bug report form in the addon's homepage.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • slightly faster
Cons
  • consumes too much CPU
  • small drop-down panel
  • changes the appearance of email account to mobile
Most mentioned
  • consumes too much CPU
User reviews
by squall leonhart, 2024-05-24

by squall leonhart, 2024-05-24

slightly faster
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Speed Tweaks requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Speed Tweaks has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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