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Speeding up firefox

As a UNIX and network guy, I try to optimize systems and networks to deliver the most bang for the buck. I recently came across the following post on the Mozilla Zine web forums: This link covers several tunables for Firefox, several of which can significantly speedup page load times (especially when you have a tabbed list of news sites): network.http.max-connections: This value controls the maximum number of outbound TCP connections. network.http.max-connections accepts an integer value and defaults to 24. network.http.max-connections-per-server: This value controls the number of concurrent requests to a single site…