Great Speed Hack For Firefox And IE

Browsers are apparently configured for dial-up users. This video shows in just a few steps how you can make some hacky changes to speed up your browsing. Effects will differ between computers and connections, but it works on Firefox 2.0 for me. Pages load lightning fast now, as if they are pulled out of cache. I'm a little amazed. This shows that there is more potential than we may think in the setup you currently have.

You'll want to try this for sure. Just pause the video after each step to keep up with it. First it shows the FF hack, then the one for IE. FF is much easier to do.

Lightning Fast Browsing Trick For Internet Explorer And Firefox - video powered by Metacafe

If the video doesn't work, or in case it's taken offline one day, here are the notes from it, exactly as shown in the movie.

By default, browsers are
optimised for dial-up ...
Broadband can handle much
more ..

Tweaks to increase the
maximum sumultaneous
connections per page for
faster browsing

Open Firefox
Type about:config in address bar
Filter 'network'
Double click
network.http.pipelining
and set it to TRUE
Double click
...pipelining.maxrequests
to set value from '4'
to a higher value
like 10
Your pages will load "much" faster now

For INTERNET EXPLORER users
Goto START > RUN and
type "regedit"
select HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Expand Software
Microsoft
Windows
Current Version
and ...
Internet Settings
MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server &
MaxConnectionsPerServer
indicates the maximum no.
of connections per page
Increase the values (DECIMAL)
from default to a higher value,
say 10
Close Regedit and see
the difference in IE

cheers !
Hope it speeds your browsing too