Firefox Quantum was supposed to be fast, but it is slow. Here’s how to speed it up!

I thought that when Mozilla released Firefox 57, code named Quantum, it would live up to the recent hype about how fast it would be.

I did not find that to be the case.  My home page is www.google.com and it would take almost 10 seconds to load it.  That is ridiculously too slow.

I did some research and found others had complained about slow response and freezing web browsers.  The net result is a simple fix:  turn off the Accessibility Services (if you don’t need it).

1. Click the menu button and choose Options.
2. Select the Privacy and Security panel.
3. Go to the “Permissions” section.
4. Check the Prevent accessibility services from accessing your browser checkbox.
5. Restart Firefox.

Simple and sweet – and it works!

Here is the KB article if you want to read the entire description of these services and how you might be affected if you disable them: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/accessibility-services

Hope that helps!