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Yay, I've found some awesome firefox tweaks/hacks/fun things to boost your internet speed. Which we all want, right?

Well I've messed around tons with Firefox's internal registry, so I'll only post the ones that have made the biggest difference to speed so far. To start off:

1. In Firefox's URL bar, type about:config and press Enter.

HTTP Pipelining
HTTP is the protocol that almost all web pages are transferred with. Using this protocol, you can send multiple requests to a web server before your client actually receives any of these requests. This is called 'pipelining'. If you're an internet whiz, it's a bit like the difference between dial-up and broadband - broadband allows you to access more channels, and pipelining is a similar concept.

1. In your about:config page, right click anywhere on the screen and choose New > Boolean > type network.http.pipelining. Make sure it says true on the last column on the right (the 'value' field), otherwise, just double-click it to set it to true.
2. Right click anywhere again, New > Integer > type network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and choose a value of 8.
3. Right click, New > Boolean > type network.http.proxy.pipelining, make sure it says true again, otherwise double-click to set it to true.

Yay done!


Interrupting Content Parsing
What this does, is tell Firefox to interrupt parsing [loading] a page to respond to a user event [such as you clicking on something]. So instead of waiting for everything to load, and then being able to use a page, you'll be able to use it in the middle of loading. Which is awesome for pages with a billion images you don't care about.

1. In the same window, New > Boolean > type content.interrupt.parsing and make sure it's set to true, otherwise double-click.
2. New > Integer > content.max.tokenizing.time > set to 2250000

Okay, those are the most important for now. :D

Good luck making firefox faster! [as if it's not already fast enough. Talk about being greedy.]