Make IE and FireFox go faster than ever

FireFox is cool - but it's *very* slow. So is IE.

There are ways to make both of them run faster, fortunately.

• If you want to make IE go faster - Go here.

If you want to make FireFox go faster, follow these steps:

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return.
    Scroll down and look for the following entries:
     network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining
     network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
    Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time.
    When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

Alter the entries as follows: 

1.  Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
2.  Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
3.  Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30.
    
    This means it will make 30 requests at once.
   .
4.  Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer.
    Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay"
    and set its value to "0". 

 This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
 If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!

[found here with terrible formatting, so I reqrote it more clearly)