On: Speeding up Firefox

[trapper]

The second article notes that for most modern webservers for those not using a modem (really, they still have those?) it should be faster.

And this: "Firefox will only send a maximum of 8 HTTP requests at a time in any case" - really? Anyone know if there is a good reason?

[eli → trapper]

Because most people don't want each client making >8 connections to their web server at once. Nor would making more connections necessarily be faster.

[bmj → trapper]

The second article notes that for most modern webservers for those not using a modem (really, they still have those?) it should be faster.

Oh, yes indeed-y. I'm writing modem control code for a compact framework app right now.