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

Manifest V2
By: Benthum
Daily users: 998
-5
Rating: 3.53
(34)
Version: 0.1.3 (Last updated: 2020-09-13)
Version code: 5097899
Creation date: 2017-12-24
Weekly download count: 52
Firefox on Android: Yes
Permissions:
  • storage
  • privacy
  • *://*/*
  • webRequest
  • browsingData
  • notifications
  • webRequestBlocking
Size: 53.02K
URLs: Website
Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Speed Tweaks (v0.1.6)
7,000 4.33 (27)
Not available on Android
Speed Tweaks (v0.1.6)
2,777 4.80 (4)

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 a lot of CPU resources
  • dropdown menu is too small to see all text
  • changes appearance of email account to mobile format
  • causes significant increase in CPU consumption
Most mentioned
  • high CPU usage
  • small dropdown panel
  • changes to email appearance
User reviews

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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 impact analysis details
  • Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood

We don't have sufficient data to confidently determine the risk likelihood of Speed Tweaks. Use it at your own risk.

Risk likelihood analysis details
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