Videos and gifs sometime pause for a second, need to tweak performance

I have a high end gaming laptop with 16GB ram, 4th gen i7, SSD hard drive, NVIDIA 770m graphics.
When I have a lot of tabs open, Firefox slows down a lot. Sometime animated gifs pause until I move my mouse, sometimes videos on various sites pause for a second (audio keeps going) and then catches up to the audio. The video issue happens on multiple sites including youtube.
I have updated flash, java, video drivers, windows updates, etc. I have an onboard intel 4600 video card which was being used for firefox. I switched to the NVIDIA card and I still have the same issues.
My computer should have the power to handle what I'm viewing. How can I tweak my settings to allow firefox to use more resources if needed? In task manager it never seems to get above 1GB Ram and 24% processor, yet still looks laggy as if my system is out of resources.
If it's important, I seem to get the same type of lag in regular internet explorer....
thanks

You can check if there is an update for your graphics display driver.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-do-i-upgrade-my-graphics-drivers
You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.
*Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
You need to close and restart Firefox after toggling this setting.
Also check for issues caused by extensions.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration

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