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NOTE: This page is now pretty out-of-date.  I've since switched browsers to Google Chrome, which doesn't need any particular tuning of its own.

Although I didn't think I'd have to, I actually ended up tweaking Mozilla's Firefox browser
a bit for speed. This page is intended to document that, as well as offer tips for
those who use other browsers.

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First, open your browser and enter "about:config" as the URL. This will access Firefox's
internal settings. Click through the "please be careful" warning, then simply change the following:

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I did some research as to why this isn't enabled by default and really couldn't find any good reasons.
Apache Traffic Server supports this, and I got a roughly 100% speed boost by enabling it.
I also dropped the folks at Mozilla a line and suggested they support this.

network.http.pipelining user_set boolean true
network.http.pipelining.aggressive user_set boolean true
network.http.pipelining.ssl user_set boolean true
network.http.proxy.pipelining user_set boolean true

Increase Connections

As it turns out, this first setting is artifically low on the presumption you'll be using a public proxy
on the Internet and that it's "bad etiquette" to send such a server too many connections.
Being that I'm not going to kick myself off my own proxy server, I went ahead and changed this.

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network.http.proxy.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy user_set integer 256
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server user_set integer 128

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Speculative HTTP Parsing

This setting I've had no end of annoyance finding documentation for.  I believe it has to do with predictive HTTP parsing, and the default is pretty lowI found I got a considerable performance boost with ATS by disabling this feature.

network.http.speculative-parallel-limit user_set integer 320

That's it. Go ahead and restart your browser just to be safe, then enjoy your increased surfing speeds.

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