{"id":33269,"date":"2021-01-21T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=33269"},"modified":"2024-04-24T15:09:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:09:42","slug":"change-firefox-frame-rate-high-refresh-rate-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/01\/change-firefox-frame-rate-high-refresh-rate-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Firefox Frame Rate for High Refresh Rate Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9472\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/firefox-70icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Running Ubuntu with high refresh rate monitor? You may found that the Firefox web browser does not match with your monitor&#8217;s native refresh rate.<\/p>\n<p>This is a simple tip shows how to change the refresh rate of Firefox, though you have to first set the system refresh rate (Settings -&gt; Displays) to match your monitor.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.)<\/b> Open Firefox and type <code style=\"border: none; color: #000000;\">about:config<\/code> in address bar and hit Enter. And click the button which says &#8216;Accept the Risk and Continue&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33270\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/firefox-aboutconfig.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.)<\/b> Next in the filter box, type <code style=\"border: none; color: #000000;\">layout.frame_rate<\/code> and click edit the key value to your monitor&#8217;s native refresh rate (144 in the case).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33271\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/firefox-refresh-rate.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Restart Firefox and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/nozth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reddit<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running Ubuntu with high refresh rate monitor? You may found that the Firefox web browser does not match with your monitor&#8217;s native refresh rate. This is a simple tip shows how to change the refresh rate of Firefox, though you have to first set the system refresh rate (Settings -&gt; Displays) to match your monitor. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1194],"class_list":["post-33269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-firefox"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}