French North Africa and an early collapse of Italy's position

What wider Mediterranean changes follow if the French fleet and North Africa continue the war in 1940?

Italy's position in Libya may collapse early, Malta supply becomes easier, and Allied fleets can redistribute toward other theaters.

A fighting French North Africa places Italian forces between attacks from east and west and may collapse Libya before the Afrika Korps can intervene. Allied control along more of the North African coast would create a shorter and safer route for moving supplies toward Malta. The Royal Navy could then spend less effort on large contested convoy operations and more on neutralizing the Italian fleet. Freed British and French ships could reinforce the Atlantic and Indian Ocean, while the altered land campaign might also change operations around Crete and Greece.