These two about:config settings within FF, if both exist, seem to me that they would cause a conflict at the default settings of true.
Anyways I changed browser.cache.memory.enable to "False" and FF seems to be a bit snappier.
Not saying that will be case for everyone, just an observation here which seems to work.
browser.cache.memory.enable - True - changed to False and restart FF.
browser.cache.disk.enable - True