Rather than just opening, Firefox tries to be cute by opening the tab halfway, then sliding open the rest of the way. If you have a fast enough system, maybe you don’t notice. But if you’re like me and like things to be as fast as possible, you can disable this behavior.
In a new tab, open about:config. In the filter, type browser.tabs.animate. Double-click the value to toggle it to false. The change takes place immediately–there’s no need to restart Firefox. Opening tabs will then happen slightly faster, as will launching Firefox with multiple tabs open.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.
Wow! That’s a great tip! Thanks.