So, for all those people that suffer from poor Firefox performance on
#OpenBSD.
Here is my recipe. I did not do any professional comparisons. It's just my personal feeling that FF feels much more snappy:
1. Increase OS resource limits ----->
https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/openbsd-on-a-laptop/.
2. Go to Betterfox site ----->
https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox.
3. Copy user.js content from above repo and create user.js file in your profile directory (/home/$username/.config/mozilla/firefox/profile.$name).
4. Paste below if your GPU is supported in "My overrides" section:
user_pref("identity.fxaccounts.enabled", false);
user_pref("layers.acceleration.force-enabled", true);
user_pref("gfx.webrender.enabled", true);
user_pref("gfx.webgpu.force-enabled", true);
user_pref("gfx.webrender.compositor.force-enabled", true);
user_pref("gfx.x11-egl.force-enabled", true);
user_pref("gfx.webrender.all", true);
Profit ! Doing above increased speed of my Firefox install at least twice. YMMV.
Please don't kill me :openbsd: