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Although I didn't think I'd have to, I actually ended up tweaking Mozilla's Firefox browser
quite a bit for speed. This page is intended to document that, as well as offer tips for
those who use other browsers. Please note the following isn't required for other browsers.
But if you have additional information, please edit this page.

Mozilla Firefox Tuning

There's not a whole lot to go into here, but I thought I'd offer this up as documentation
for others who may try to get the most from their ATS configuration.

Assuming you've followed the WebCacheProxyTuning page, and have everything up and running
here's what I've modified within Firefox for additional performance.

First, open your browser and enter "about:config" as the URL. This will access Firefox's
internal settings. Then, simply change the following:

1. Enable HTTP Pipelining

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 found a roughly 100% speed boost by enabling it.
I also dropped the folks at Mozilla a line and suggested they support this.

network.http.proxy.pipelining user_set boolean true

2. Increase Proxy Connections

As it turns out, this 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. (wink)

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

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

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