From Jake Jarvis:

I stumbled across an EXTREMELY impressive Firefox tweak using simple about:config settings built into the program. Until you enable this tweak, you won’t realize how much bandwidth you’re not utilizing when you’re browsing the web. There are many versions of the Firefox speed boost, but I think RV2.org’s method is the most effective. Onto the instructions, shall we?

1) Open up Firefox and type “about:config” into the address bar. Press Enter.

2) Change the settings (which you can search for by name) to the following:

network.http.max-connections: 96 network.http.max-connections-per-server: 48 network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy: 24 network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server: 12 network.http.pipelining: true network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 64 network.http.proxy.pipelining: true

3) Restart Firefox.

Downside? Of course, nothing’s this simple. The only problem with enabling these settings is the fact that this hammers the server that you are requesting information from. In other words, instead of sending one request out to the server for a web page, it sends much more than that, therefore decreasing the load time every time you load a page. Unless every user enables this tweak and visits a very weak server, you shouldn’t have any guilt.