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Lindy
2007-01-06, 07:05 PM CST
Many power users most likely know this, but since I just discovered this little tweak I'll pass it along. Open up Firefox and type "about:config" (no quotes) in the location bar ,then locate the line : network.http.pipelining .
Right click on the line and select "toggle" from the dropdown and viola! Your page loading times will speed up. I don't know if all you broadband users will notice much of a difference, but for those of us stuck with dialup it makes a big improvement in in page loading times (at least it does foe me ). More info. on the subject can be found here: http://www.die.net/musings/page_load_time/

zeroelixis
2007-01-06, 08:09 PM CST
This might speed it up too (pipelining enabled as default):

http://getswiftfox.com/

Lindy
2007-01-06, 10:11 PM CST
Might have to give that a tryout. 'Course if your not concerned about pretty pictures Lynx is pretty darn zippy :-)

zeroelixis
2007-01-06, 11:04 PM CST
Agreed!, I can imagine how useful console browsers are to dial-up users. Elinks (http://elinks.or.cz) is pretty smart too.